Just over three months remain until Arkansas basketball season gets underway, and with Razorback football once again projected to finish 14th in the SEC, many Hog fans are already looking ahead to hoops.
Arkansas returns a large swathe of last year’s Sweet 16 squad to go along with a top-five recruiting class and a pair of experienced big man additions in the transfer portal. The Razorbacks will in all likelihood begin the year as a top 25 team and be one of the central contenders in the SEC alongside Florida, Kentucky, Auburn and others.
But you won’t hear Arkansas basketball coach John Calipari doing too much boasting about his team’s chances, outside of general praise that he “likes this group” and is “happy with this team.