This Saturday Mike Neighbors, Women’s Head Basketball Coach Mike Neighbors joins “The Cheap Seats”! You can tune in this Saturday to the Ozarks Sports Talk Show at 8:40am on Kkountry 95!
Arkansas Women’s Basketball Head Coach Mike Neighbors doesn’t want to hide from history. The Arkansas native is well-versed in the history of the program he inherited, including the struggles of the recent past. However, his attention doesn’t stay there long; he’d much rather talk about where the Razorbacks are headed, and how they plan to get there.
Neighbors enters his third season at the helm coming off of one of the best and most dynamic seasons in program history, as his 2018-19 Hogs became one of just four Razorback squads since the turn of the century to win at least 22 games. The group capped off the season with an unprecedented run through the SEC Tournament, advancing to the Final after reeling off wins against Georgia, No. 12 South Carolina and No. 15 Texas A&M. Their win against A&M was one of the most shocking in the history of Arkansas Women’s Basketball, as the Hogs went on a 17-0 over the final 6:30 of the game to complete the 16-point comeback.
Though they would narrowly miss the NCAA Tournament following the program’s first-ever appearance in the SEC Title Game, Neighbors’ team did earn a bid in the 2019 WNIT, where they would beat Houston and UAB before falling to TCU in round three.
This season is just the latest example of Neighbors’ brilliance as a head coach, though. In his six seasons in charge, Neighbors has accumulated 133 total wins, making him one of just 16 active power-five coaches with that many in their first six seasons at the power-five level. Neighbors is one of just two coaches in the power-five to have accumulated that many wins at two different power-five schools during the first six years of a coaching career.
You can find out inteview with Razorbacks Men’s Basketball Coach, Eric Musselman at https://www.ecommnewsnetwork.com/the-cheap-seats-from-the-ecomm-sports-network/