There were expectations in 2017 when Mike Neighbors was hired to make the University of Arkansas women’s basketball team competitive in the SEC.
Neighbors had distinguished himself in four years as the head coach at Washington, taking it to three NCAA Tournaments and making the Final Four and Sweet 16.
That though was in the Pac-12, not the SEC, so expectations were not unrealistic.
Neighbors has been the perfect fit.
Not only was he home grown, born in Greenwood and raised in Fort Smith, he graduated from the UA and was an assistant for a year there.