Late cancellation

The Razorbacks were packing up their bus to drive to the airport to fly to College Station, Texas, last Friday when Coach Eric Musselman got the news Arkansas’ game at Texas A&M had been postponed because of covid-19 issues within the Aggies’ program.

“The thing that is overly frustrating is nobody knows — unless you’re in our practice gym — what we do for a game prep,” Musselman said Monday night on his radio show. “That means film sessions pre-practice. That means film sessions after practice. That means all the 1-on-1 stations, 2-on-2, 3-on-3, 5-on5. Full court, half court, pickand-roll coverages. Learning their personnel in meetings individually with the coach.

“It’s exhausting to do a prep. To finally have the prep done, the book’s closed on this prep, and then you get a call that the game’s not going to happen. It’s tough, and it’s happened twice now with the same team.”

Arkansas’ game against Texas A&M scheduled for Feb. 6 in Walton Arena also was postponed because of the Aggies’ covid-19 issues.

“Look, the covid thing, really difficult for each and every program, really difficult for the league,” Musselman said. “But we’d like to find out [earlier if a game can be played]. Maybe it can’t. Maybe that’s just how this virus happens.

“But now twice we’ve been unable to get another game in. The first time, I thought maybe LSU would come here, because they were off and we were off, and we both found out on Friday [Feb. 5]. But I guess we couldn’t come up with a game on Saturday or Sunday for whatever reason.”