Arkansas women’s basketball coach Mike Neighbors is tracking down an eerily similar path as former men’s basketball coach Mike Anderson. The former is approaching the finish line of his eighth season leading a Razorback program he was hired to return to prominence.
In March we will see if Neighbors suffers the same fate as Anderson, who was fired after failing to give athletics director Hunter Yurachek the kind of plan that inspired confidence the program was heading in the right direction following multiple disappointing postseason runs.
On Saturday night, during Arkansas’ 92-85 home victory over one of his other former schools (Missouri), Anderson received a thunderous ovation despite the way he was fired six years prior.