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UA happy to step up for Baylor challenge

FAYETTEVILLE -- SEC women's basketball coaches were at the conference's spring meetings in Destin, Fla., in 2019 when the topic of the Big 12/SEC Challenge for the 2020-21 season came up.

The University of Arkansas wasn't scheduled to be part of the Challenge, which didn't sit well with Razorbacks Coach Mike Neighbors.

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"It was supposed to be our year off, and I said, 'We're going to have one of our best teams yet, and now we're not getting to play in it?' " Neighbors recalled Thursday. "[The SEC officials] looked at me and said, 'Well, you can play in it, but you're going to have to play Baylor.