In a Southeastern Conference game on Saturday in Fayetteville, Arkansas, Arkansas defeated Georgia 78-75 behind the combined 15
points from Keyon Menifield and El Ellis, who led five players in double figures. For the 12th-place Razorbacks (12-11, 3-7 SEC),
Makhi Mitchell contributed 14 points, Travon Mark added 13 (including a free throw with less than a second remaining), and Jalen
Graham scored 11. The Bulldogs (14-10, 4-7), who are 11th in the SEC and have lost five straight games, were led by Silas Demary Jr.
with 18 points. Russell Tchewa scored ten points, while Justin Hill added eighteen.
In the first three minutes of the second half, Arkansas took a 44-32 lead, but the Bulldogs, who had been frigid in the first half, found
their range to close with a 55-53 advantage with 7:43 left. With 7:24 remaining in the game, Georgia completed a 20-9 run to knot the
score at 55-55 after the Hogs missed four straight free throws. After thereafter, there were four ties between the two teams until Hill’s
3-pointer with 3:57 remaining gave the Bulldogs their first lead (66–65) since the first half’s 8:58 mark.
As the last minute approached, the two teams were knotted for the fifteenth time, 72-72, after trading one-point leads back and forth.
Blue Cain and Jabri Abdur-Rahim missed three-pointers for Mitchell and Georgia, respectively (layup
At 2:18 of the first half, Arkansas embarked on a 10-0 scoring run to offset a 9-2 Georgia surge to take a 30-25 lead. Despite shooting
just 35.7 percent overall and 1 of 12 on 3-pointers in the first half, the Bulldogs managed to maintain a 34-29 lead at the intermission,
going more than four minutes without a field goal (0-of-11). The Hogs (14-of-30) had a 12-to-1 advantage in points after seven Georgia
mistakes, and they were only one basket from the 50% field goal mark. In the second half, Arkansas committed eight turnovers against
Georgia’s 1-3-1 zone defense, which cost them a 21-8 advantage in the category.
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