FAYETTEVILLE — The question everyone wanted to know the answer to was asked bluntly to Arkansas guard Mason Jones shortly after he took a seat in the postgame interview room on Wednesday.
Do you think you deserve to be named SEC player of the year?
Many in the room likely expected a canned answer from the junior guard, who put together yet another masterpiece and scored a game-high 36 points on 10 of 17 shooting in the Razorbacks' 99-90 win over LSU in the final regular-season game in Bud Walton Arena.
His response was anything but an extension of coachspeak.