FAYETTEVILLE — The basketball Razorbacks may require Manuale Watkins-type improvement multiplied entire team wide.
Such massive, en masse improvement in the other Razorbacks’ holdovers this season, like what Watkins waged as a sophomore last season, presently appears Arkansas’ only hope at fielding a competitive team for 2015-2016.
Watkins went from freshman walk-on guard in 2013-2014 mopping up eight lopsided games to playing every game off the bench in 2014-2015. The Fayetteville High graduate and son of Arkansas assistant coach Melvin Watkins was second on the team in steals (37), just two behind team-leader Bobby Portis even while Portis doubled Watkins’ minutes.