There’s an old adage that says you should let sleeping dogs lie.
Instead of doing that, Tulsa woke up Arkansas’ Mason Jones on Saturday before the game, and Jones went off for a career-high 41 points in the Razorbacks’ 98-79 win over the Golden Hurricane before 15,589 fans at Bud Walton Arena.
Jones said he was energized by some hallway trash talk before the game from Tulsa, who had won at Vanderbilt earlier this season. He let them know how easy it was to score against them after he went for 20 first-half points.
“When people start talking trash,” Jones said of when he got hyped up for the game.