FAYETTEVILLE — Like some actors and actresses accepting Academy Awards, Mike Neighbors thanked the little people.
Unlike some Oscar winners, Neighbors obviously didn’t privately think them little nor publicly called them such.
Nor was this an apex-like Oscar occasion. For it appears where third-year Arkansas coach and Greenwood native Neighbors takes the Razorbacks women’s basketball program, bigger things await the remainder of this season and well into the future considering his recruiting prowess.
Yet, it was a momentous Thursday night at Walton Arena. For against the Tennessee Lady Vols, the bastion of women’s basketball under the late Pat Summitt and formerly 31-3 against Arkansas, Neighbors’ Razorbacks now sport consecutive victories.