The LSU win was so good that its aftermath, almost a week later, dulls the pain of a home hoops loss to Akron.
Once upon a time, Razorback football and basketball lived together in place called Conference Contender Towers on a street named Relevance, No. (Top) 20.
Alas, trying to sync the two money programs (with a shout-out to the consistently brilliant Diamond Hogs, whose program runs in the black as well) has proven harder than solving Rubik's Cube, popular back when Razorback fans enjoyed gravy, generally, from September though April.
From the late '70s when Eddie Sutton introduced the dance known as basketball to a gridiron-centric population and the state fell in love with three homegrown, 6-4 monster guards known as the Triplets, to our badly-timed-from-a-football-perspective entry into the SEC in '92, expectations for winter and spring centered on conference championships, bowl games and NCAA tournaments.