Meet the Razorbacks

Since this game is going to be on national television lets get as much background as possible in order to better impress our relatives.

First of all... these guys lost their top 3 scorers from a year ago and do not boast of a single senior on this year's squad.

Second... mostly in counter to the previous point, they did manage to pull a Top 25 recruiting class, including two prize prospects by any standard (Sonny Weems and Patrick Beverley). Weems, last season's JUCO "player of the year," was named #1 "impact transfer" by collegehoops.net and Beverley was #3 in the Illinois Mr. Basketball voting last season. Weems is the 'Backs leading scorer and Beverley tallied 29 against SEMO in his first collegiate game.

Third... they've got a lot of height. The one thing that separates teams from the Missouri Valley and other mid-major conferences from the heavyweights is overall height. Arkansas has three players at 6'10" and above. Steven Hill leads the way at 7'0." He's not much of a scorer, but he does block a lot of shots. In fact, over the course of his career he has compiled one fewer blocked shot than field goal attempt.

Overall... these guys don't have proven scorers and lack senior leadership, but they do have talent and are physically imposing. They wiped SEMO by 40 points, but only pulled away from Stephen F. Austin mid-way through the second half. I wouldn't want to play these guys in March, but here in November.... in a trap game of sorts... I project a 10 point victory for the Dawgs.