FAYETTEVILLE — Arkansas women's basketball coach Mike Neighbors has made it clear he wants to play as many games as possible this year, and he wants those games to come against the best competition possible.
But even Arkansas athletics director Hunter Yurachek wasn't sure about Neighbors' latest addition to the schedule — against Connecticut next Thursday at 4 p.m. at Bud Walton Arena.
"Mike Neighbors sent a text to me when Vanderbilt dropped out of the season and wanted to know if he could replace Vanderbilt with Connecticut," Yurachek said. "Quite honestly I thought he was kidding when he sent me that text.