Nobody Else Is Doing What Billy Richmond Is For Arkansas

FAYETTEVILLE — If not for the efforts of Billy Richmond III, Arkansas very well could've lost to Central Arkansas inside Bud Walton Arena on Friday.

Richmond scored 21 points on 8-12 shooting from the floor and went a perfect 3-3 from beyond the arc while also grabbing nine rebounds and four assists. For a team head coach John Calipari is still trying to teach how to win, Richmond's experience and leadership is invaluable.

"He dove and drove, he rebounded, he [stuck] back," Calipari said of Richmond postgame. "I'm trying to get everybody to go at the rim like him rebounding, and most of them won't go."

Fifteeen of Richmond's points, including all three of his makes from deep, came in the first…