FAYETTEVILLE — Ron Huery did not win a national championship as a basketball player at Arkansas, but he helped lay the groundwork for the Razorbacks’ championship team in 1994, three years after his playing career ended.
Huery, a 6-6 guard who was a first-team All-Southwest Conference player as a sophomore and a key reserve on teams that made deep tournament runs his redshirt junior and senior seasons, died early Saturday in his hometown of Memphis, according to former Arkansas coach Nolan Richardson and former players. Huery was 55.
A cause of death is not known. Multiple calls to the Shelby (Tenn.