LSU was the No. 1 seed, and Tennessee and Kentucky were the big dogs from the SEC East.
The University or Arkansas head coach’s seat had grown a bit warm as the team struggled from start to finish, never winning more than two consecutive games.
The season was 1999-2000, and the Arkansas Razorbacks came into the SEC Tournament as long shots with only one chance of making March Madness — win four games in four days. That had not been done since the league expanded in 1992.
In 2000, the Razorbacks — a No. 3 seed from the SEC West — had a tough schedule, opening with Georgia in the Atlanta Dome, less than two hours from the Bulldogs’ campus.