No. 21 Arkansas (5-1) ran away from Jackson State (0-5) in a 115-61 win on Friday evening inside Bud Walton Arena. Here are the four biggest takeaways from Friday’s game. The game was tied at seven at the first media timeout, but Arkansas guard Billy Richmond III — as he often does — provided a spark. Richmond threw down consecutive dunks and assisted on another in the midst of an 11-0 Arkansas run that blew the game open before the second media timeout. Meleek Thomas had a career-low 13 points on 4-of-6 shooting from the field on Friday, but Arkansas had plenty of scoring to go around. Thomas didn’t break into double figures until there were fewer than 11 minutes to play in the game on a night where seven Razorbacks broke into double figures and scored the most points of the John Calipari era. Thomas had to bail Arkansas out against Winthrop on Tuesday, but got to take things relatively easy to start the weekend. After playing a combined 15 minutes in Arkansas’ wins over Samford and Winthrop, Florida StRead More
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