NWADG Basketball

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14 2017 Northwest Arkansas Basketball Sunday, November 5, 2017 He also acknowledged the numbers proved him wrong early on. "When we really got to believe in it would be when I thought I knew who our best five were and I looked at the numbers and I could not have been more drastically wrong," Neighbors said. "It was a little ego-blasting. "The kids realize when I'm in the game, I don't need to score but my team needs to score. And if all of a sudden, the kid shows up in the top six lineups, prob- ably should play that kid the bulk of the minutes. It's how we ended up having a kid that was a walk-on at Washington start for us in the Final Four." Neither Neighbors nor any of his staff had an answer why Alexus Atch- ley showed up in every one of their top lineups. But again, the numbers didn't lie that the team performed better with her on the floor. "You start watching and you realize the ball moved a little bit better," Neigh- bors said. "She didn't take bad shots. The next thing you know those lineups start getting better, so you reward her with playing time." Neighbors also brings a more up-tem- po offensive style with him from Wash- ington, where he led the Huskies to four Women v Continued from Page 13 NWA Democrat-Gazette/J.T. WAMPLER Razorback head coach Mike Neighbors runs practice Oct. 16 at Bud Walton Arena in Fayetteville. v Continued on next page

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