Maybe it was just the first game back from the holidays, or looking ahead to conference play, maybe even some combination of the two. Whatever it was, the Hogs had a struggle in the first half before pulling away in the second half to a comfortable 95-68 win over CSU Bakersfield.
Arkansas jumped out to an early lead but then Bakersfield ran off a 12-1 run with some hot shooting and tied things up at 38. Arkansas would go into the half with a 42-38 lead. After that it was all Hogs. A 14-2 run to start the second put the Hogs up 56-40 and they wouldn’t look back.