BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Mike Neighbors walked into his first SEC media day in 2017 with his Arkansas women's basketball team voted last place in the league’s preseason poll.
Eight years later and with two more members added to the SEC, Neighbors entered the Grand Bohemian Hotel for media day in the same spot Wednesday.
Arkansas was predicted to finish 16th out of 16 teams in the 2024-25 preseason poll. It was the first time in six years the Razorbacks were not predicted to finish in the league’s upper half.
Neighbors, who has brought the program as high as No.