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A return home brought slumping Oklahoma much relief Wednesday night. The Sooners, who had dropped three of their four games away from Norman over the past 10 days, knocked off Arkansas, 67-47, for their 73rd nonconference victory at the Lloyd Noble Center over the past 75 games.

Arkansas will continue to be without sophomore point guard Courtney Fortson and may not have senior forward Michael Washington for Wednesday night's game at Oklahoma.

Arkansas guard Rotnei Clarke was so frustrated he didn't know what to say Sunday.

Arkansas' double-digit loss to South Alabama continues the Razorbacks spiral. That's three straight nonconference losses to mid-major programs in Bud Walton Arena in the span of a week.

North Carolina point guard Larry Drew has done a remarkable job replacing Ty Lawson, showing poise and leadership.

Site, time: Walton Arena, Fayetteville, Ark., 8 p.m. Radio: WKBC 97.3, WBLO 790 Of note: Appalachian State, sparked by 24 points from Donald Sims, upset Arkansas 74-68 in the first meeting between the teams, in 2007 in Little Rock.

FAYETTEVILLE - Louisville likely will guard Rotnei Clarke in pregame closer tonight than Alcorn State guarded the Arkansas shooting guard during last Friday night's game.

FAYETTEVILLE - Arkansas didn't need its announced available eight to beat Alcorn State.

The Arkansas Razorbacks basketball team is set to start the 2009-2010 season with eight players.

Arkansas gets through its exhibition basketball schedule unscathed. Two practice games against Dillard and LeMoyne-Owens. Two wins.

The Magicians scored 49 points and shot 46.3 percent in the first half to keep the game close, but were held to 21.4 percent from the floor in the decisive second half.

In their exhibition debuts, both Kentucky and Arkansas registered lackluster performances, while Mississippi State rebounded from a poor first-half showing with a second-half blowout.

13 because of the wave of suspensions handed down by coach John Pelphrey earlier this semester.

Although the Washington County prosecutor John Threet closed the case last month on the allegations of rape involving University of Arkansas basketball players, the whole sordid ordeal has resurfaced today.

Sophomore Rotnei Clarke, who averaged 12.2 points for the Razorbacks last season, and Courtney Fortson are all that remain from last yeara s recruiting class.

Discipline will vary from player to player. Players could face suspensions from playing in two to three regular season games.

One of Arkansas' basketball team's leading scorers could be disciplined over a crass comment he made on the Internet as police investigated fellow players over an alleged rape, an athletic department spokesman said Thursday.

The chancellor of the University of Arkansas gave unqualified support Friday to basketball coach John Pelphrey, calling him the man who is "going to turn it around" after police investigated three players over an alleged rape.

A spokesman says a University of Arkansas basketball player may be disciplined over a crass comment posted on the Internet as police investigated his teammates after a female student claimed she was raped at a party.

Arkansas head coach John Pelphrey was on the road recruiting Wednesday as his world was spinning potentially out of control.