Courtesy: Arkansas media relations
For the sixth consecutive year, the Arkansas basketball team will not play in either the NCAA or the NIT tournaments.
The Hogs were a long shot for an NCAA tournament birth after their early exit in in the SEC tournament earlier this week, and learned officially that they were not included the tourney field of 68 on Sunday evening. Only three SEC teams – Florida, Missouri, and Ole Miss – were included in the NCAA tournament.
They were also left out of the NIT field of 32 released just after 8 p.m. Sunday night. The three SEC teams included in the NIT field were Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama.
The Razorbacks, who finished the season at 19-13 after a loss to Vanderbilt in the SEC tournament on Thursday, have not played a major post season tournament since advancing to the second round of the NCAA tournament in 2008.
Seems like we should have made the NIT, but we did turn down an invitation to it a while back.
Next year, next year
Ouch. Im sure Mike is recruiting players that can shoot the ball??? Never seen an Arkansas team with no pure shooters?? No one played these guys close and dared them to shoot. Plus no bigs to rebound their constant misses. Long ways to go. Embarrasing though.
need some shooters for sure. and a point guard. and an offense to run. and a set play for end-of-half/end-of-game. and to learn the concept of boxing-out. and to stop making stupid, ill-timed fouls. and oh screw it.
Remember when Ark basketball was actually relevant? It made March Madness so much more fun. Now it’s just…meh.
I am not giving up on Coach A. Hope he turns it around. But we can’t really justify keeping a 20K seat arena without consistently making the Big Dance.
If we don’t make the NCAA tourney next year, the university should donate the arena to the Walton Arts Center. Screw you Bentonville!
Barely remember.
Really? Barely remember? 1994 was so long ago your doddering memory can’t grasp at any straws?
Just another thing to add to the list of “One hit wonders from the 90s”.
Well, not a single player on the current team will remember 1994. It’s irrelevant. Starting in Eddie Sutton’s third season, the team made NCAA appearances (when the field was smaller and it was tougher to do so) 22 times in 28 years. Since Nolan was runoft, three appearances, and none since 2008.
So yeah, glute (who is usually wrong about everything) is spot-on this time.
I feel bad for the students. I was in college back in the mid-90′s. The basketball atmosphere was magical. Today’s kids just don’t know. It’s no wonder they turn to drugs & prostitution.