FAYETTEVILLE — Two former Arkansas players will coach preseason favorites Friday at Baum Stadium.
The No. 6 Razorbacks are picked to win the SEC West under 16th-year head coach Dave Van Horn, while Bucknell is the preseason favorite in the Patriot League under sixth-year head coach Scott Heather, who spent two years as a pitcher and another season as a student assistant coach at Arkansas in the late 1990s.
Heather will be the second former Arkansas player to bring a team to Fayetteville as an opposing head coach. Van Horn's Nebraska team beat the Razorbacks twice at Baum Stadium in 2000.