FAYETTEVILLE -- According to their predecessors and themselves, it sometimes seemed a practice facility might be a bigger boon to Arkansas men's and women's basketball than if clones of Razorbacks legends Sidney Moncrief and Corliss Williamson or Lady Razorbacks legends Bettye Fiscus and Christy Smith somehow could star for Arkansas again.
Hyperbole, of course. But sometimes it seems not so completely far-fetched, considering the panacea the coaches conjured.
Former men's coach John Pelphrey, former women's coach Tom Collen, current men's coach Mike Anderson and current women's coach Jimmy Dykes repeatedly cited that everyone else in the SEC had a basketball practice facility and that Arkansas did not, and all the what-ifs should Arkansas have one and the joy exuded upon revelation Arkansas would get one.