Arkansas’ Musselman irate during, after SEC loss

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Arkansas coach Eric Musselman made it very clear he wasn’t proud of a loss to No. 18 Texas A&M and an early exit on the Southeastern Convention match.

Razorbacks assistants needed to restrain Musselman a pair instances throughout a 67-61 loss Friday night time within the quarterfinals by which the Aggies rallied from a 13-point deficit.

After the sport, a pupil journalist tweeted that his telephone was grabbed and thrown to the bottom by an Arkansas staffer who was strolling behind Musselman as he left the court docket.

The Kentucky Kernal, the impartial pupil newspaper on the College of Kentucky, put out a press release after the incident that concerned its journalist.

“The Kentucky Kernal is appalled by the actions of the Arkansas males’s basketball program. … no journalist, particularly a pupil journalist, ought to be subjected to violence for merely doing their job,” the assertion stated.

Musselman did not point out any outbursts when he met with reporters postgame.

“Should you get down 7-0 within the foul rely at any stage, whether or not it is CYO, faculty, the NBA, it impacts your aggressiveness defensively, particularly a workforce that shoots foul pictures percentage-wise in addition to Texas A&M has all season lengthy,” Musselman stated.

Wade Taylor scored 18 factors to assist Texas A&M (24-8) advance for the second straight 12 months to the semifinals, the place it would play Vanderbilt, which beat Kentucky.

Arkansas (20-13) now should wait till Sunday’s NCAA match bracket announcement to study its postseason destiny.

Musselman stated it was going to take a while to recover from this stinging loss.

“For a lot of the sport we had a lead. I imply, we had a lead for 27 minutes or no matter,” Musselman stated. “Clearly we performed an excellent first half and a poor second half. I give Texas A&M credit score for his or her second-half play.”

The Related Press contributed to this report.