Be aware: Preserve scrolling for stay updates and refresh your tab for the newest from Bud Walton Enviornment!
Arkansas basketball is as soon as once more set to host one of many nation’s elite packages for a preseason charity exhibition, because the No. 1 Kansas Jayhawks will face the Razorbacks on Friday night at Bud Walton Enviornment in Fayetteville. The sport is ready for an 8 p.m. CT tipoff and it will likely be televised on SEC Community.
The matchup will mark the primary ever take a look at the Hoop Hogs beneath first-year head coach John Calipari. Arkansas has a roster that options three highly-touted freshmen, 5 key transfers and one returning scholarship participant in ahead Trevon Brazile.
RELATED: Projecting Arkansas’ beginning 5
Arkansas and Kansas have not met in Fayetteville since Dec. 6, 1986, when the Jayhawks defeated the Razorbacks, 103-86. The Hogs gained the most-recent matchup, although, by defeating Kansas, 72-71, within the second spherical of the NCAA Match within the 2022-23 season. Kansas leads the all-time sequence, 8-6.
Calipari is accustomed to Kansas head coach Invoice Self, who defeated the Calipari-led Memphis Tigers within the 2008 nationwide championship sport. Based on Calipari, he is associates with Self and the 2 coaches may select to function situational work in Friday’s exhibition, however it will likely be an actual sport with quarters as an alternative of halves.
“Let’s play zone for 5 minutes,” Calipari mentioned Oct. 1. “Let’s press one another. Let’s do scenario work, two- three-minute conditions. We’re up eight, then we’re down eight. Let’s have a look at how we play. Why not? It is good for each packages.”
Calipari offered clarification in a tweet Thursday for any followers unsure what the format of the competition will appear to be.
“This can be a REAL exhibition sport,” Calipari mentioned. “Invoice Self and I each talked about what our groups want and we selected quarters which is able to present extra situational alternatives. We’re wanting ahead to an unbelievable ambiance in Bud Walton Enviornment tomorrow night time! Can’t wait to stroll out of the house groups tunnel for the primary time! Let’s do that!:
ALSO READ: Calipari utilizing exhibitions to set Arkansas staff tradition
The brand new Head Hog additionally made it a degree of emphasis to mood expectations as his staff is suffering from new faces which have but to play a sport in opposition to exterior competitors.
“Most likely going to get stung fairly good,” Calipari mentioned. “However it’s good for us to determine the place we’re proper now. For our followers to see the place we’re. The workers, everybody, has an concept of the place we’re proper now, and that we have work to do. I’ve by no means promised to have a magic wand.”
RELATED: Arkansas basketball banged up heading into Kansas exhibition
Arkansas hosted Purdue, which was ranked No. 1 in a number of preseason polls, final season for preseason charity exhibition. Led by former coach Eric Musselman, the Razorbacks gained 81-77 in extra time in opposition to the Boilermakers.
The Hogs personal a 73-10 all-time document in exhibition video games, together with a 64-9 mark at residence, the place they’ve gained 37 straight exhibitions.
Friday’s exhibition is sponsored by CareSource. Arkansas will donate proceeds to Arkansas Youngsters’s Hospitals and Kansas will donate to Fore The Children Basis, a accomplice of Youngsters’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas Metropolis.
Under are particulars on tips on how to watch and hyperlinks to observe, plus all of our content material main as much as the sport.
STARTING LINEUPS
Kansas
– AJ Storr
– Dajuan Harris Jr.
– Zeke Mayo
– KJ Adams Jr.
– Flory Bidunga
Arkansas
– Boogie Fland
– Adou Thiero
– Karter Knox
– D.J. Wagner
– Zvonimir Ivisic
FIRST QUARTER
9:21 – D.J. Wagner sinks Arkansas’ first bucket with a 3-pointer courtesy of a Boogie Fland help. (3-2, Arkansas)
6:17 – The lone returning participant from a 12 months in the past, Trevon Brazile checked in for the Hogs to a pleasant ovation. Lower than 30 seconds later, Brazile slammed an alley oop from Fland that hit off the backboard. (16-9, Arkansas)
PREGAME
HawgBeat noticed Trevon Brazile, Boogie Fland, Adou Thiero, Billy Richmond III, Kartern Knox, Johnell Davis, Zvonimir Ivisic and D.J. Wagner going by pregame shootaround. Jonas Aidoo is just not dressed for Friday’s sport.
Who: No. 16 Arkansas Razorbacks vs. No. 1 Kansas Jayhawks
What: Preseason charity exhibition
When: Friday, Oct. 25 at 8:00 p.m. CT
The place: Bud Walton Enviornment — Fayetteville, Arkansas
TV/Stream: SEC Community/Watch ESPN
