Inside the numbers - what it takes for Diamond Hogs to make NCAAs

FAYETTEVILLE - Elvis is in the dressing room, changing out of his gitup. The female opera singer comes on in the next act. Regis Philbin is asking for a final answer.

Get the picture?

If you groaned or rolled your eyes, it’s fine. It is, after all, about the same response to the Arkansas baseball season. Common at this point.

Things are grim in the first home of Bill and Hillary Clinton. It feels like those two were in the White House the last the Arkansas baseball team failed to make the NCAA Tournament. It feels that way because it is not that far off. George W. Bush had been president for all of four months the last time the Diamond Hogs didn’t make the postseason.

Year 2001 may be back upon…