There's really no question that this is going to be the best team Mike Anderson has had since he's been in Fayetteville. At least on paper, there's too much talent here for Arkansas to struggle, and unlike in years past Anderson isn't dealing with talented players who nonetheless are poor fits for his system
By almost any measure, Arkansas in 2014-15 had its best season since Nolan Richardson was on the sidelines -- which is, well, what his former assistant Mike Anderson was brought in to do. The Razorbacks won 27 games, the most since the 1994-95 team won 32; they finished the regular season in the AP Top 25 for the first time since 1998-99; they reached the round of 32 in the NCAA Tournament for only the second time since 1999; and they were unequivocally the second-best team in the SEC behind Kentucky.