ESPN’s ‘Faculty GameDay’ coming to Bud Walton Enviornment Saturday

ESPN’s “Faculty GameDay” — a weekly pregame present masking NCAA basketball (and a spin-off of the favored soccer present) — is usually hosted from the location of one of the anticipated video games of the week. This Saturday, that occurs at Fayetteville’s Bud Walton Enviornment forward of the Arkansas Razorbacks’ conflict with the Kentucky Wildcats.

Fayetteville, we’re headed to your metropolis

See you quickly for @KentuckyMBB vs. @RazorbackMBB pic.twitter.com/KlpZ7HTjdM

— Faculty GameDay (@CollegeGameDay) January 20, 2024

It’s undoubtedly an ungainly time for the ESPN program to be making its first go to to Bud Walton — aka The Basketball Palace of Mid-America, generally known as one of many loudest, most intense environments in school basketball — as a result of it’s exhausting to recollect the final time the Hoop Hogs have regarded this lackluster.

The Razorbacks (10-9, 1-5 SEC) are usually one of many hardest groups to play on their house courtroom. However this season the staff suffered an uncharacteristic non-conference loss at house to UNC-Greensboro at a time when the Razorbacks have been ranked No. 14 within the nation. The hogs kicked off SEC play Jan. 6 with the worst loss at Bud Walton in program historical past in a 83-51 blowout to the Auburn Tigers, prompting head coach Eric Musselman’s candid “We stunk in all areas” postgame press convention rant.

What an ending to Eric Musselman’s postgame press convention after the 83-51 house loss to Auburn. pic.twitter.com/s7iWqJ6Bmm

— Mason Choate (@ChoateMason) January 6, 2024

For the reason that loss to Auburn, the Razorbacks are 1-4. The Hogs defeated Texas A&M 78-77 (after blowing a 20 level lead) at house behind the heroics of main scorer Tramon Mark, who scored a career-high 35 factors and hit the game-winning shot with 1.1 seconds on the clock.

The Razorbacks’ following sport was a 77-64 house loss to South Carolina on Jan. 20.

Kentucky (14-4, 4-2 SEC) involves city following the Razorbacks 77-51 blowout loss to Ole Miss in Oxford, Mississippi, on Wednesday. The Hogs have been quick handed, however the staff has regarded disjointed and generally downright detached at many factors all through the season. The metrics appear to again that up. The NET (NCAA Analysis Instrument) Rankings — one of many most important instruments utilized by the NCAA to find out the sector within the annual NCAA Event — has the Razorbacks at 126 within the nation. Groups actually have off-years, however that quantity is tough to imagine after three consecutive journeys to the Candy Sixteen.

Belongings you didn’t assume you’d tweet: Arkansas is 1-5 in SEC play, with all 5 losses coming by double figures.

— Jon Rothstein (@JonRothstein) January 25, 2024

If the Razorbacks have any hopes of constructing an at giant bid to the NCAA Event they’ve to start out profitable now. With GameDay coming to city on Saturday, it will be a really perfect time to proper the ship.

ESPN Faculty GameDay airs on ESPN from 10-11 a.m. The Razorbacks scheduled tipoff versus Kentucky is at 5 p.m. on ESPN.

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