Arkansas Razorbacks 70 - Bakken Bears 59 (actual score)

 Another Scoring Error leads to the 2nd erroneous score of the 4 games played in Italy.  The final score of this one should be 70-59 rather than 73-59.

Arkansas jumped out to a 15 point lead in the 1st Quarter which may be partially due to the Italian team not being able to fully warm up as they had problems with the goal on their end so as I understand it they didn't get a full time to warm up.  The Razorbacks didn't have that issue.  Arkansas started Anthony Black, Nick Smith, Trevon Brazile, Barry Dunning, Jr and Kamani Johnson.

The 2nd half saw Bakkan outscore the Razorbacks to cut the deficit to 11 - Devo Davis scored just before the end of the half to extend Arkansas' 9 point lead to 11.  Trevon Brazile owned the scoring in the first half for Arkansas going a perfect 9 for 9 from the field and 1 for 1 from the line to lead Arkansas.

Nick Smith did not play the entire 2nd Half.   I didn't listen to the broadcast because I don't care for the Arkansas announcers so I'm not sure if they said why he was sitting.  He was on the sidelines.

Anyway, Arkansas started the same 5 in the 2nd except for Smith - Devo started in his place.

I did a 2nd half score to show that the 2 teams finished the 2nd half both with 29 points.  The veteran Italian team exploited the Razorbacks a couple of times on inbounds plays forcing the Razorbacks into turnovers and also bothered them a couple of times with traps.  This was another game where the play was physical with a lot fo contact being allowed.  Ricky Council missed a dunk and a couple of lay ups as did Anthony Black.  28 turnovers won't make Coach Musselman happy although a few wouldn't be turnovers in college games - FIBA rules.

You can see from the Box Score that the rotation was less in this final game even with Nick sitting the entire 2nd half.  The primary rotation appears to be:  Anthony Black, Nick Smith, Trevon Brazile, Kamani Johnson and 1 - Barry Dunning, Jr,  Jordan Walsh, Ricky Council IV or Devo Davis.  Those 8 played the most.  The Mitchell Twins played some but less.  Jalen Graham just hasn't seemed comfortable yet nor has Derrian Ford.  Ford and Pinion didn't enter the game until the final minute to play.

They have a lot of video to review and use to teach between now and the start of the season.  The talent is there.  Let's see how it evolves.

Razorback men Basketball Cumulative 3 game stats Europe Tour

   This is MY compilation of stats from watching the games.  As far as I know, there are no official stats so I know there may be some variations out there IF you can find anyone else posting stats from the games.  I know I saw some reports crediting Nick Smith with 21 points in the first game while I and others had him with 17.  

Some of the turnovers have been communication errors - thinking a teammate will cut and they don't type of thing and some simply do to hussle but ultimately having the ball go out of bounds off the player.  

Free Throw shooting - Kamani has surprised doing very well while Walsh and Dunning have only hit 50% but low volume.

Barry Dunning has simply been solid.  Coach Musselman singled him out for not turning the ball over.

One final game to go