Tomorrow is Senior Day as the Razorbacks take on the Georgia Bulldogs. For Moses Kingsley it’s a time for us to say whatever the Nigerian word is for “good luck in the European leagues.” Kingsley is considered the best ‘Moses’ to attend Arkansas since Mike Malone took a year off Hendrix and rented a house from Crazy Eric.

March Madness is a season of rebirth for athletic directors. A time when they fire women’s basketball coaches because they need to distract impatient fans who wanted them to fire the football coach. Arkansas is a tradition rich women’s basketball program, and brutal expectations can be a tough monster to feed. But besides wins and losses — because you didn’t care when he was winning — James Barack Dykes had the unmitigated audacity to allow his players to exercise their 1st amendment rights without giving them the Spanish Inquisition.

Quick Aside: The Spanish Inquisition would be an outstanding nickname for NBA great (and Barcelona native) Pau Gasol. Just saying.

I digress. Coach Dykes is under a lot of pressure from a lot of important people — who think they pay his salary. When six Arkansas players “took a knee” during the national anthem earlier this year, a shocked and stunned State Representative Jason Rapertwas overheard saying, “You mean to tell me they let girls play basketball?!?!?” Rather than risk a racial discrimination lawsuit the Razorbacks would have lost at the U.S. Supreme Court worse than they lost at South Carolina, Jimmy Dykes stood by his players’ constitutional rights. And that shit don’t play around the Arkansas Legislature.

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Lastly, Pau Gasol’s chief weapons on the basketball court are fear, surprise and a ruthless efficiency. Not a coincidence.

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