Stare at the 2024-25 Arkansas basketball team long enough, they’re a 7. Squint hard, though, and you may think it looks a lot like your ex.
The Razorbacks’ one-point win over 25th-ranked Mississippi State on Saturday, on its face, was one of those good-not-great victories that was nonetheless outsized by what it meant rather than how it was played. Arkansas squandered an 11-point lead with less than six minutes left and needed MSU to miss a hurried shot near the rim at the buzzer to hold on. But the win also put John Calipari and his team within shouting distance of an NCAA Tournament berth.