With Arkansas mired in the muck of a 1-6 start to SEC play, first-year coach John Calipari sent out a motivational text to his team with a message of inspiration that could essentially be boiled down to this: If you're going to have success,

Arkansas held Texas under 35 percent from the field and picked up back-to-back wins in SEC play for the first time with a 78-70 win over the Longhorns, staving off a furious comeback attempt. Johnell Davis led the Razorbacks with a new season-high 24 points,

For the first time in 35 years, the Arkansas Razorbacks defeated the Texas Longhorns on their home court, earning a crucial 78-70 victory.

A slow start proved too much for Texas to overcome against surging Arkansas. The Longhorns will try and rebound Saturday at Vanderbilt.

Alabama basketball will be back in action Saturday night on the road at Arkansas. Here is a preview of the Razorbacks.

The Longhorns have now won four of their past six SEC games and are favored to beat visiting Arkansas (13-8, 2-6) Wednesday at 8 p.m. at Moody Center (ESPN2, 1300, 98.1). More: Texas basketball: Who is Devon Pryor,

The Texas Longhorns got hit with an SEC-sized slap in the face on Wednesday at the Moody Center in a rivalry rematch with the Arkansas Razorbacks. Arkansas guard Johnell Davis finished with a team-high 24 points including a dagger 3-pointer in the closing minutes to lead the Razorbacks to a 78-70 win over Texas in the first meeting between the old rivals since 2018.