Arkansas and Ole Miss are both 5-6 in SEC play this year, and last season's close 71-70 finish still rankles in Oxford.
With Bobby Portis and Michael Qualls no longer marauding across NCAA hardwoods, Arkansas basketball's 2016 incarnation looks wholly different from last year's squad, which earned a No. 5 seed in the Big Dance after losing to Kentucky in the SEC Tournament championship game. At 12-12 (5-6 SEC), the Piggies have just one road win this year, a 94-61 curbstomping of Mizzou in Columbia.
And so Andy Kennedy plays Saturday afternoon host to Mike Anderson's club in The Pavilion, where the Basketbears look to avenge last season's heartbreaking 71-70 scraper almost a year to the day after the fact.