FAYETTEVILLE – Predictions for the Southeastern Conference basketball season were made at SEC Media Day on Wednesday in Birmingham, Alabama, and Arkansas was picked near the bottom of the league.
The Razorbacks tallied 118 points in the media’s preseason poll to finish a predicted 11th out of 14 teams in the league. Arkansas is ahead of Tennessee (86 points), Alabama (85) and Missouri (33). No one on the Arkansas roster was named to the preseason all-conference team.
Arkansas doesn’t return a starter from last year’s team after Michael Qualls and Bobby Portis left early for the NBA, Ky Madden and Alandise Harris exhausted their eligibility and Anton Beard was suspended after a forgery arrest in the offseason.