University of Arkansas, Fayetteville ScholarWorks@UARK Arkansas Women's Basketball Athletics 2013 Razorback Women's Basketball Media Guide, 2012-2013 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Athletics Media Relations Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.uark.edu/basketball-women Citation University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Athletics Media Relations. (2013). Razorback Women's Basketball Media Guide, 2012-2013. Arkansas Women's Basketball. Retrieved from https://scholarworks.uark.edu/ basketball-women/5 This Periodical is brought to you for free and open access by the Athletics at ScholarWorks@UARK. It has been accepted for inclusion in Arkansas Women's Basketball by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@UARK. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 3 13 310 Postseason Winning Seasons Career Wins Appearances at Arkansas UNLIMITED 14 Potential Years as 5 a Head Seasons at Arkansas Coach 6 All-SEC selections at Arkansas 12 Postseason Appearances in his Career 2 2 2 3 SEC Scoring SEC Three-Point SEC Field Goal Defense Field Goal Defense Defense 2 8 SEC Defensive NCAA Scoring Rebounding Defense Percentage 15 NCAA Three-Point Defense 3 THE NEW SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE THE NEW SEC 1991 EXPANSION were held at Birmingham’s Legion The SEC was established on De- In 1991, the SEC expanded from Field, and have since been held at the cember 8 and 9, 1932, when the 13 10 to 12 member universities with Georgia Dome in Atlanta. members of the Southern Confer- the addition of University of Arkan- ence located west and south of the sas and University of South Carolina. 2012 EXPANSION Appalachian Mountains left to form The two new teams joined for On September 25, 2011, the SEC their own conference. Ten of the 13 the 1991–1992 basketball season. At Presidents and Chancellors, acting founding members have remained in the same time, the SEC split into two unanimously, announced that Texas the conference since its inception: divisions—a Western Division com- A&M University will join the SEC ef- the University of Alabama, Auburn prising most of the schools in the fective July 1, 2012, with Texas A&M University, the University of Florida, Central Time Zone, and an Eastern to begin competition in nineteen of the University of Georgia, the Uni- Division comprising the schools in the twenty sports sponsored by the versity of Kentucky, Louisiana State the Eastern Time Zone plus Vander- SEC during the 2012–13 academic University (LSU), the University of bilt (which is located in the Central year. On November 6, 2011 the SEC Mississippi (Ole Miss), Mississippi Time Zone, but is in the Eastern Divi- commissioner announced that the State University, the University of sion to preserve its rivalry with Ten- University of Missouri will also be Tennessee, and Vanderbilt Univer- nessee, while Alabama and Auburn joining the SEC on July 1, 2012. For sity. are in the same division to preserve football, Texas A&M will compete in theirs despite Auburn being further the Western Division, and Missouri The other charter members were: east than Vanderbilt). This divisional in the Eastern Division. The University of the South (Se- format remains in place today for wanee) left the SEC on December 13, football and baseball; the divisions WOMEN’S BASKETBALL 1940. Georgia Institute of Technol- have been eliminated for basketball. IN THE SEC ogy (Georgia Tech) left the SEC in Also in 1992, the SEC was the The SEC has historically been the 1964. Tulane University left the SEC first conference to receive permission most dominant conference in wom- in 1966. from the NCAA to sponsor an annual en’s basketball. Since the 2009–10 football championship game, featur- season, teams have played a 16-game ing the winners of the conference’s conference schedule with a single Eastern and Western divisions. The league table; prior to that time the 1992 and 1993 SEC Championships conference schedule was 14 games, 4 THE NEW SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE again in a single table. Like SEC men’s basketball, women’s basketball used the divisional alignment for scheduling purposes through the 2011–12 season; however, the women’s scheduling format was significantly differ- ent from the men’s. Each team played home-and-home games against five schools—one permanent opponent, two teams from the same division, and two teams from the opposite division; the non-permanent home-and- home opponents rotated every two years. The remaining games were single games against the six other schools in the con- ference, with three at home and three away. The league voted to keep a 16-game league schedule even after the addition of Missouri and Texas A&M. Ar- kansas and LSU will no longer be permanent op- ponents, with the Razorbacks picking up Missouri and the Lady Tigers picking up Texas A&M. The other permanent opponents are the same as men’s bas- ketball, except for Florida-Georgia and Kentucky-South Carolina (both pairs had been permanent women’s basketball op- ponents before the 2012 expansion). Each school will play two other schools home-and-home during a given season and the other 10 once each. The divisional alignments will no longer play any role in schedul- ing. The recent history of SEC women’s basketball is dominated by Tennes- see, who have won regular season and/or conference championships in 20 of the last 22 seasons, as well as 8 national championships since 1987. In the 28 seasons the NCAA Women’s Division I Basketball Championship has been held, SEC schools have reached the Final Four 32 times, more than twice as often as any other conference. BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT The SEC Women’s Basketball Tournament is currently held a week before the men’s basketball tournament. Like the men’s version, it is a single-elimination tournament involving all conference members, with seeding based on regular season records. With the expansion to 14 schools, the bottom four teams in the conference standings play opening-round games, and the top four receive “double byes” into the quarterfinals. The winner earns the con- ference’s automatic bid to the NCAA women’s basketball tournament. The tournament, inaugurated in 1980, was originally held on campus sites; the first tournament to take place at a neutral site was in 1987. The two most frequent sites for the tournament have been McKenzie Arena in Chattanoo- ga, Tennessee (seven times) and the Gray Civic Center in Albany, Georgia (six times); however, the tournament was last played in Albany in 1992 and Chattanooga in 2000. Because demand for women’s tournament tickets is gener- ally lower than for the men’s tournament, it is typically played in a smaller venue than the men’s tournament in the same season. The most frequent venues in recent years have been Bridgestone Arena in Nashville and Verizon Arena in North Little Rock, Ark., which have respectively hosted the event five and three times since 2000. 5 TABLE OF CONTENTS THIS IS RAZORBACK BASKETBALL Joey Bailey ................................................ 66-67 RAZORBACK HISTORY About Razorback Basketball .......................... 2-3 Mia Melton ..................................................... 68 Coaching Records ..................................126-127 The New SEC ................................................ 4-5 Ana-Carlota Faussurier .................................... 69 Year by Year Results ..............................128-145 Quick Facts....................................................... 7 Dominique Wilson ............................................ 70 Arkansas in the SEC/SWC Standings ......146-148 Media Information ......................................... 8-9 Melissa Wolff ................................................. 71 Versus Opponents ..................................149-156 2012-13 Outlook ....................................... 10-13 How To.... ................................................. 72-73 Miscellaneous Records .................................. 157 This is Arkansas ............................................. 14 Departing Players ........................................... 74 By the Numbers .....................................158-159 Why Arkansas................................................. 15 Letterwinners ........................................160-161 Academics ................................................. 16-17 History ..................................................162-169 Strength and Conditioning ..........................18-19 Hall of Honor Selections .........................170-174 Lights, Camera, Action ...............................20-23 The Next Level ........................................... 24-25 Bud Walton Arena ...................................... 26-27 Future Practice Facility ..............................28-29 Locker Room .............................................. 30-31 Tusk IV ........................................................... 32 2011-12 REVIEW Season in Review ...................................... 76-81 Results ........................................................... 82 Statistics ........................................................ 83 2012-13 OPPONENTS Superlatives .................................................... 84 Non-Conference Opponents ....................176-178 SEC Stats and Standings ...........................85-89 Collen versus the opponents .......................... 179 Box Scores ................................................ 90-98 The SEC ................................................180-181 SEC Opponents ......................................182-194