NCAA 1st Rd Preview: #4 seed Arkansas vs #13 seed Vermont

Mike Cawood March 16, 2022

Who: #17/18 (4 seed) Arkansas Razorbacks (25-8) vs RV/RV (13 seed) Vermont Catamounts (28-5)
What: NCAA Championship First Round
When: Thursday – Mar. 17 – 8:20 pm (CT)
Where: Buffalo, N.Y. – KeyBank Center (20,500)
How (to follow):
– TV: TNT (Brad Nessler, Brendan Haywood and Evan Washburn)
^ Online: NCAA Tournament Central
– Radio: Learfield Razorback Sports Network (Chuck Barrett and Matt Zimmerman)
^ Listen to Razorback Sports Network Online
– Radio: Westwood One Network (Scott Graham and Jon Crispin)
^ Sirius/XM: Westwood One: Sirius: 136 || XM: 203 || Online Channel: 966
– Live Stats: NCAA Tournament Central

– Arkansas Game Notes
– Vermont Game Notes
– SEC Notes and Stats

BUFFALO, N.Y. – The #17/18 Arkansas Razorbacks (seeded fourth) will face the Vermont Catamounts (seeded 13th) in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Tipoff is set for 8:20 pm (CT) and the game will be televised on TNT.

Arkansas earned a #4 seed in the West Region after finishing fourth during the SEC regular season and reaching the SEC Tournament semifinal. Vermont was the America East regular-season (17-1) and tournament champions. Both teams finished the season hot as the Razorbacks won 15 of their last 18 games – including eight wins versus NCAA QUAD 1 teams – while the Catamounts won 22 of their last 23.

This will be the first meeting between Arkansas and Vermont. However, Coach Musselman is 1-0 versus the Catamounts as his Nevada squad beat Vermont in the CBI semifinal in 2016.
Arkansas earns its 35th NCAA bid and 2nd straight. (full NCAA history) Last year, Arkansas advanced to the NCAA Elite 8 before falling to eventual national champion Baylor.
The Razorbacks own a 45-33 all-time record in NCAA action.
This is the sixth time in program history Arkansas has earned a No. 4 seed and the 13th time to be among the top-4 seeds since the NCAA began its current seeding process for the 1979 championship. The previous #4 seeds came in 1999, 1993, 1990, 1983 and 1982.
Arkansas is 17-8 in NCAA Tournament first round games.
Arkansas 0-1 all-time in Buffalo. On Jan. 1, 1944, Arkansas lost to a George Mikan-led DePaul team, 59-30, at Buffalo’s Memorial Auditorium.

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