Mizzou making the tournament is great accomplishment and a great coaching accomplishment.

Arkansas team isn’t gelling and they should be this late in the season. Smith hasn’t played and Brazile has only played 8 full games.

Musselman is a good coach, but I don’t think he is as good as Hawg fans think he is. This year there is no excuse for them to lose to teams like Mizzou, Vandy, LSU, SC, Miss, or MState.

It sucks that Brazile and Smith are out for the conference and Arkansas fans. Even without them Arkansas is still talented enough to be a top 20 team. If they don’t make the tournament or only win 7 or 8 more games it would be a disappointing season.

The next 5 conference games Arkansas should beat Mizzou by 10, Ole Miss at home by 25, LSU at home by 25, A&M at home by 15, and SC by 15. The last 8 games you have UK, A&M, UT, and Bama on the road. That’s a tough stretch and going 0-4 would be disappointing, 1-3 is ok, and 2-2 would be good.

Winning 9 more conference games this season probably gets the Hawgs in the tournament. Beating Mizzou twice, UGA, and A&M twice should be enough. For the out of conference resume beating top 20 Baylor on the road would be a good win, but it’s not a bad loss.

Right now losing to 10-8 Creighton with Brazile is probably the worse loss of the season.

This post was edited on 1/16/23 at 5:23 pm

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Posted by dchog

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Posted on 1/16/23 at 6:54 pm to MizzouBS

None of these freshmen maybe besides Nick Smith don't have enough time to develop into good players yet.

When they play against better developed, more mature and experienced players then the results now shouldn't be a surprise.

They have potential which is long term but now just by skill they are bad players that are adjusting to far greater competition than it was in high school.

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