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The Hog Pod with Bo Mattingly

327: Darius Acuff: SEC Player of the Year

The Hog Pod with Bo Mattingly

Sport & Story

Sports

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

In this week's episode of The Hog Pod, we sit down with Darius Acuff to talk about his incredible freshman season at Arkansas, earning SEC Player of the Year and SEC Freshman of the Year honors while emerging as one of the most exciting young guards in college basketball. Acuff reflects on the biggest moments from his breakout year, the mindset that fueled his success, and what it means to lead the Arkansas Razorbacks men's basketball team into the postseason.

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0:00.0

A legend for sure.

0:03.0

I hope they remember me the best player to come through here.

0:06.0

I said that about every, like AAU school, whatever, I always,

0:10.0

the whole people remember me as, like he was the best player.

0:13.0

Give me one of those things that you might tell kids right now if they were sitting here

0:17.0

and you had to just give them one quick thing, something you wanted to just tell them

0:21.8

that might impact their life. What would it be?

0:23.6

Uh, don't be a follower, like be a leader. I always, you know, lead by example, or

0:30.1

ever follow what someone else is doing, I would say. I think that it'd take you very far.

0:34.6

I'm like, it's taking me, you know, places for sure. My mom taught me that for sure. Like don't, don't be a follower, always, you know, do what you want to do, be a leader,

0:43.3

and everything else will come with yourself.

0:45.3

Welcome into the hog pot.

0:58.1

I'm Bo Mattingly, and this episode is made possible by our friends at South by Northwest Hospitality.

1:08.6

Acoff.

1:10.2

That's the three

1:11.0

Acoff taken over

1:13.0

Joe is there any reason not to keep feeding A-Cuff?

1:16.2

Darius A-Cuff Jr. didn't just arrive in Fayetteville.

1:20.1

He took over.

1:21.7

Special.

1:22.6

I'm consistently blown away.

1:24.4

He ain't got no weaknesses.

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