Arkansas Tops SEC and ranks No. 5 nationally in CBS Sports’ Best in College Sports Rankings

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas’ exceptional athletics achievement carries on to garner national recognition. The Razorbacks ranked to start with in the Southeastern Convention and fifth nationally in the a short while ago unveiled CBS Sports’ Greatest in College Sports Rankings.

Arkansas was the best executing athletics program in the SEC and one of a few convention applications in the top rated 10 of the rankings. The Razorbacks completed with 459.5 points, including 132.5 for soccer, 146 for men’s basketball, 25 for women’s basketball, 83 for baseball and 73 for women’s soccer.

The rankings were based mostly on finishes through the 2021-22 athletics 12 months, together with finishes in football, men’s basketball, women’s basketball and two wild card sporting activities amongst baseball, softball, volleyball, soccer, gymnastics, lacrosse, hockey and wrestling. Points acquired for finishes in soccer (x2.5) and men’s basketball (x2) were being multiplied as section of the ranking formula.

Coach Sam Pittman and the Razorback soccer staff turned in just one of the finest gridiron seasons in the latest background in 2021. Arkansas capped a exceptional 9-4 season with a 24-10 earn in excess of Penn Point out in the Outback Bowl. The Razorbacks gained a last national position of No. 20 in the United states Nowadays / AFCA Coaches poll.

Coach Eric Musselman and the Razorback men’s basketball staff produced a deep run into the NCAA Event for the 2nd consecutive 12 months. The Razorbacks gained 3 game titles in the draw, including a earn in excess of No.1 Gonzaga in the Sweet Sixteen to progress to the Elite 8 and the West Regional Ultimate. It marked the initially time Arkansas has innovative to the Elite Eight in again-to-again seasons given that the 1993-94 and 1994-95 campaigns.

Arkansas made a return excursion to the NCAA Women’s Basketball Event, immediately after qualifying for the Massive Dance in 2020-21 as perfectly. If not for a pandemic shortened 2019-20 marketing campaign, the Razorbacks would have gained a few-straight NCAA appearances.

Arkansas culminated its 2021-22 period with its 11^th look at the University Entire world Collection. The Razorbacks took to the road to win an NCAA Regional in Stillwater, Oklahoma and a NCAA Tremendous Regional in Chapel Hill, North Carolina to make a berth to the nationwide championship in Omaha, Nebraska. Arkansas completed third at the CWS, falling just one particular game short of the championship sequence. The Hogs highly developed to the College Globe Sequence for the third time in the past 4 comprehensive seasons

Arkansas gained its third straight SEC typical year crown, prior to advancing to the Elite Eight round of the NCAA Women’s Soccer Event for the initially time in method background. The system history postseason operate arrived up just limited of the program’s initially berth in the NCAA Final Four, when the Razorbacks fell to Rutgers in a penalty kick shootout in the Elite Eight match.

Last month, Arkansas completed a plan-file best seventh in the Learfield Directors’ Cup, earning the major end by any method with 19 athletics or much less. The Razorbacks tallied eight Southeastern Convention championships and recorded 9 top rated-10 nationwide finishes to greatest the program’s earlier Directors’ Cup most effective finish, eighth, in the 2020-21 athletics year.