ArkansasRazorbacks.com: Razorbacks beat Alabama for first SEC victory
Rotnei Clarke scored 26 points, breaking out of a shooting slump to help Arkansas beat Alabama 89-80 Thursday night.
Also:
- ArkansasRazorbacks.com: Game Stats (PDF), Post-game Quotes, Hogs get first SEC win (Video)
- ESPN.com: Arkansas 89, Alabama 80
- Chris Bahn: Razorbacks Halt Skid As Clarke Scores 26
- Ryan Malashock: Back In The Win Column
- Robbie Neiswanger: Clarke Shakes Slumn To Lead Razorbacks
- Alex Abrams: Ice Storm Forces Arkansas To Adjust
- Bob Holt: Breaking the ice
Updated 1/30/09 8:20 a.m.
Just wanted to put a quick note out here to apologize for the slow posting. Several of the RazorBloggers have been "off the grid" for the past three days dealing with the ice storm in NWA. In fact, yours truly just got power (and heat…and hot water…and wireless Internet!) about three hours ago.
On last report, HogBaller was doing good but Sunshine is still apparently in the dark. Oh…the irony!
Nice win by the Hogs tonight but there's no time to celebrate it…not even until midnight. Less than 42 hours until tipoff against LSU.
Glad you got power back Tipster. Here's hoping that the rest of the gang gets their's real soon. Go Hogs Go!
What's the deal with Monk's eligibility issues? Can't find any details anywhere. Is he at risk for being lost for the season? We really missed him the last couple games (yes, even in the Bama win)
Nice to see Clarke break out of his slump. Hopefully, he won't see another one anytime soon. He was open on almost all of his shots, his timing was down, and he didn't seem to be rushing any of the shots. Welcome back Rotnie.
I didn't get to see the second half, so I had to catch the highlights this morning on the local news replay. (I hate those late ESPN games. Getting up at 4:00 A.M. to get ready for work sux.)
Does anyone have any tidbits on our overall play?
My comments: we beat them at threes about like we have been getting beat at threes; Fortson was under control all night——-look at his stats; we played high energy the whole way and everyone suddenly seemed to recall the basic outline of their respective role—–check the lack of threes shot by Fortson. Two other critical elements were that we outrebounded Alabama, which has always been hard for Arkansas, and we hit something like our last 14 FT's. Having looked at what I just wrote, I wonder why we did not win by 25.