On Saturday, Arkansas vs Mississippi State will put a spotlight on Arkansas as a late-starting program for a couple reasons.
For one, no SEC bubble team started conference play more slowly this season than the Razorbacks, who stumbled out of the gates at 1-6 before flipping the script in Lexington to go 7-4 since then.
While Arkansas already has a good shot at making March Madness, beating the Bulldogs at home should all but punch that ticket assuming a bid-stealers apocalypse doesn’t go down in other conferences.
Nate Ament at Arkansas vs Mississippi State
In the sea of faces of what promises to be a raucous crowd will be that of Nate Ament, a sharp-shooting 6’9” high school senior whom 247Sports ranks as the nation’s No.