FAYETTEVILLE — It wasn’t quite as emphatic as a 79-point win in the season opener, but Arkansas cruised past Northwestern State 89-59 on Friday in front of thousands of local students to improve to 2-0 in Kelsi Musick’s second season.
The calling card of this year’s Arkansas team is its new defense, and it was once again on display. Arkansas forced 34 turnovers, and Friday’s game even saw a Northwestern State player score on her own basket.
Even on a day where the Hogs were far from their best offensively — they shot just 38 percent from the field and 28 percent from beyond the arc — their defense was good enough to let them coast to an easy win.
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“We were still able to force quite a few turnovers,” Musick said. “Rebounding was really good, but we’ve got to limit our turnovers. I thought we really started to share the ball, find the open man and get downhill towards the second half, especially end of the third, [start] we were able to get downhill, share the ball and start to spray it a little bit for some good shots.”…