FAYETTEVILLE — The lone active Razorback who third-year Arkansas Women’s Basketball Coach Mike Neighbors didn’t recruit made the final shots that would have ensured a good Arkansas seeding for this NCAA Tournament that never was.
That he didn’t recruit but inherited her, Neighbors treasures most that Kiara Williams’ two free throws with eight seconds left completed 17-point comeback for Arkansas’ 67-66 victory over the nationally 15th-ranked Texas A&M Aggies in the March 6 second round of the SEC Tournament.
The team sports better free-throw shooters, but none who could more gratify the coach.
“If I could have chosen somebody to make those free throws, it would have been her,” Neighbors said.