FAYETTEVILLE — Connor Vanover has received nothing but glowing reviews from Arkansas coach Eric Musselman through five games this season.
Incredible, dominant and effective are some the adjectives the Razorbacks’ second-year coach has used to describe the 7-3 forward’s play. They perfectly sum up Vanover’s defensive impact to this point, but especially his last two games.
In Arkansas’ wins over Lipscomb and Southern, the redshirt sophomore has grabbed 18 defensive rebounds, come away with four steals, blocked seven shots and altered numerous others. Wednesday, he played a role in the Razorbacks notching their second-best defensive efficiency rating of Musselman’s 37-game tenure at Arkansas (59.