The end felt a lot like air let out of a balloon. There was no pop. It was a slow release. And by the time the helium was emptied, things sort of just moved on.
Arkansas tried Thursday to regain its little-seen form from earlier in the season. Form that beat Texas A&M and LSU existed in the Razorbacks. It just didn’t show up enough.
Or at all in in the first round of the Southeastern Conference Tournament.
Florida did what it needed - and little more - to dispatch Arkansas from the tournament in Nashville, Tennessee, 68-61.