Hogs look to improve after poor season

COMING BACK: Michael Washington, above, will return for his senior season at Arkansas. The McGehee native was the Razorbacks’ leading scorer and rebounder last season.

FAYETTEVILLE - If absence makes the heart grow fonder, then fleeting absence must make the heart go bonkers.

At least if you by Southeastern Conference men’s basketball.

The SEC took a season-long pundits’ pounding last year as a hoops league losing its luster.

But now that some of the same players in that same league recently opted to stay in school after testing NBA draft waters, ‘tis an optimistic wind blowing away last year’s pessimism.

Coaches during Monday’s annual summer SEC Media teleconference unanimously touting the coming league season...

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July, 2009