Season glance: The women’s games 30-31

This is it! We made it to the end.

Through 29 games, I have the Tigers at 16-13 overall and 5-9 in SEC play. I’m not feeling quite as good about that after Monday’s performance against Vermont, but I did have them losing that game so the predictions haven’t failed yet.

We’re down to the end of the regular-season schedule with matchups against Arkansas and Vanderbilt.

The Razorbacks are coming off an 18-15 season with a 6-10 record in SEC play.

Arkansas lost its first game in the SEC Tournament and got beat by Tulsa 80-62 in the first round of the WBIT.

The Razorbacks opened last season with six consecutive wins, including a win against Wisconsin, but a lost to Marquette ended that streak.

Arkansas then beat No. 15 Florida State 71-58, but lost to UCLA and Arkansas-Pine Bluff in the next three games.

In conference play, Arkansas beat Georgia, Alabama, Kentucky, Missouri twice (67-58 on Jan. 28 and 75-68 on Feb. 18) and Auburn.

With the two wins last year, Arkansas has won the past 12 matchups against the Tigers and holds a 23-12 lead in the all-time series. Missouri’s last win was Feb. 28, 2019, in Fayetteville, Ark., which was the final win in a seven-game Tiger win streak in the series.

Eight-year coach Mike Neighbors has a fully rebuilt team with junior guard Carly Keats (5-foot, 8-inches) the returner who started the most last year, playing in 29 games and starting 10. Keats averaged 6.1 points per game, every player ahead of her in scoring did not return to the team.

This year’s Razorback roster has five freshmen and three transfers to help fill in.

A familiar face for Tiger fans is now in Fayetteville as senior guard Izzy Higginbottom is now a Razorback after spending two years at Arkansas State.

As a freshman at Missouri in 2020-21, Higginbottom played 27 games off the bench, averaging 6.0 points, 1.3 rebounds and 1.2 assists per game.

Last year at Arkansas State, she was a 2023-24 All-Sun Belt First Team selection and was one of 10 semifinalists for the Becky…

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Publish date : 2024-11-07 20:01:00

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