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November 22, 2022

Eric Musselman

Ricky Council

Lahaina Civic Center

Arkansas Razorbacks

Postgame Press Conference

Creighton - 90, Arkansas - 87

THE MODERATOR: We'll go ahead and get started with an opening statement from coach and then take questions for the student-athletes.

ERIC MUSSELMAN: Give Creighton a lot of credit tonight, and then our guys played really hard.

THE MODERATOR: Questions for Ricky?

Q. I was wondering if you could talk about the atmosphere in the gym tonight and what was it like to be a part of that?

RICKY COUNCIL IV: It's an amazing experience, dream come true. I watched it as a kid. Just glad we got the opportunity to play in it. Came up a little short today, but we'll bounce back tomorrow.

Q. Was there anything about the Creighton team that surprised you when you got on the court versus what you saw on film?

RICKY COUNCIL IV: No. Coach had it to a T. Just had some big slipups in the first half. I take a large part of responsibility on that. Second half we played much better. We just came up short.

THE MODERATOR: All right. Thank you. We'll let you go. We'll take questions for coach.

Q. So soon after a tough loss like that, can you appreciate how good of a game that was both ways?

ERIC MUSSELMAN: Yeah, it was a good game. It was a great game. It was a great game.

Q. You're a great defensive team. They shot around 50 percent from the three. What were some of the things they were doing to get those looks? What are some of the things that you would like to clean up?

ERIC MUSSELMAN: We got in a little bit of foul trouble, so, you know, our defense, whatever, we lost by three points and we're not, offensively we were really good tonight. So we scored 53 points in the second half. So they're a really good offensive team. But we turned it, you know, it ended up being a high-scoring game.