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Mar 12, 2025, 05:46 PM ET NASHVILLE, Tenn.– Arkansas basketball took an action towards earning an NCAA competition quote in coach John Calipari’s launching season.Barely.The ninth-seeded Razorbacks hung on to beat 16th-seeded South Carolina 72-68 Wednesday in the SEC tournament after nearly losing a 20-point lead.”We have a lot of guys that compete and did what they needed to win the game, so I enjoy, “Calipari stated.” Would you like to have it a big rating? Yeah.Editor’s Picks 2 Associated”However at this time of the year, everybody’s defending their lives.”Arkansas(20-12) advanced to play eighth-seeded Ole Miss in the second round Thursday.After the Razorbacks led 59-41 with 14:18 staying, they missed out on

12 straight shots over 11-plus minutes and their cushion was cut to a one-point advantage.D.J. Wagner, who played for Calipari at Kentucky, snapped the field goal drought with 2:37 left on a 3-pointer to put Arkansas ahead 64-60 and it kept that advantage.Calipari has led the Razorbacks to a 20-win season with a multitude of transfers, consisting of previous Wildcats, in his very first season with the program.He led Kentucky for 15 seasons, winning a championship game in 2012, before delegating prosper coach Eric Musselman.Arkansas did not earn an NCAA bid last season after advancing to the 2nd weekend in 3 straight tournaments.Wednesday marked Calipari’s 25th SEC tournament win, tying Pushover Sanderson for third-most of any head coach(Adolph Rupp 57, Billy Donovan 27 ). Does Calipari think the Razorbacks

have done enough to show the choice committee they belong in college basketball’s annual display?”I do not know,”he said

.”I’m not in the room.”Info from ESPN Research and The Associated Press was used in this report.