FAYETTEVILLE — The Arkansas women’s basketball team was predicted to finish fourth in the SEC by a panel of media voters, the league announced Tuesday.
It is the highest SEC projection for the Razorbacks since 1995-96. Arkansas went 18-14 overall and 7-9 in SEC play last season, and lost 92-69 to Utah in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.
“It means that the people that were asked to vote did their research and somehow landed with us at fourth,” Arkansas coach Mike Neighbors said Tuesday at SEC Media Days in Birmingham, Ala. “I wouldn't have put us there, but they did.