FAYETTEVILLE — It may not go towards either team’s record, but Saturday’s exhibition between No. 12 Arkansas and No. 15 Gonzaga certainly means something to both squads.
For the Razorbacks, especially the eight freshmen on John Calipari’s roster, their first game action inside Bud Walton Arena wthis season will matter a great deal.
“I heard a lot of people say the exhibition doesn’t really matter,” freshman guard Jordan Smith Jr. said Tuesday. “But for us, it does matter. Any progress, little progress is the best progress. Just for us to get better overall in this exhibition game, it’s really [did] a lot for us.”…