In a battle between a team fighting for its NCAA Tournament life and the SEC’s last-place team, only one side showed up Saturday afternoon. It wasn’t Arkansas.
Sitting firmly on the bubble, the Razorbacks laid the egg of all eggs in a 72-53 loss to South Carolina that might have been one of their worst performances in decades given the circumstances.
With two winnable regular-season games remaining, a loss to the lowly Gamecocks isn’t entirely detrimental to Arkansas’ March Madness resume. After all, it’s just a Quadrant 2 loss because South Carolina — despite its 1-14 SEC record — entered the day at No.