A field of 13 teams, seven ranked in the top 25 nationally, are scheduled to compete in the Razorback Invitational on Friday and Saturday inside Randal Tyson Track Center.

The No. 13 Gymbacks will have their first-ever conference competition with Oklahoma this week, and it comes as the Sooners are ranked the top team in the nation.

He was drafted No. 5 overall and signed for $8 million last July, a record for southpaws that topped Brendan McKay's $7 million with Tampa Bay in 2017. Smith's bonus bested the Arkansas record of $5.2 million Heston Kjerstad got from the Baltimore Orioles in 2020.

Arkansas senior first baseman Bri Ellis and junior utility player Kailey Wyckoff were voted to the 24-player preseason All-SEC team. Texas and Florida had five players on the list, and LSU, Oklahoma and Texas A&M each had three.

Sheridan offensive lineman Bradley Sturdivant, 6-foot-3, 300 pounds, gave his commitment with a handshake to Arkansas Razorbacks head coach Sam Pittman last Saturday, it marked the sixth time in the past seven years that the first pledge for the next cycle came from a homegrown prospect.

An event to watch closely Saturday is the men’s mile that will include Arkansas runners Reuben Reina and Yaseen Abdalla, a Tennessee transfer. Reina tied the Razorbacks’ program record with a mile time of 3 minutes, 55.40 seconds at the Arkansas Invitational. Abdalla broke program records in the 3,000 and 5,000 last month in Boston.

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — It must be confusing to be an Arkansas fan during Kentucky week this year.

The Razorbacks lost their freshman phenom Boogie Fland for the season, which is a massive blow as he was the team's best offensive weapon. Fland was committed to Kentucky before Coach Calipari made the move to Arkansas.

With Kentucky around the corner, we're celebrating a new era of the Hogs v. Cats rivalry. We've put together Arkansas basketball's 5 greatest wins.

Adou Thiero, who followed Calipari from Kentucky to Arkansas, had five points in the final minute to end the team's five-game losing skid.

To make a short story even shorter, the Wildcats made 22 of 28 (78.6%) field goals and 22 of 27 free throws and won 66-64. The Villanova players stormed the court and yelled "Georgetown wins, April Fools.