It is time to talk some Sweet 16 with Matthew Postens, our lead Big 12 basketball columnist at Heartland College Sports.

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So Matthew, let's talk about the first Big 12 Sweet 16 game happening on the schedule.

That's Arizona versus Arkansas coming up CBS on Thursday night.

I think we got a high-scoring game on our hands.

I'll say that much between these two teams.

I'm confident this one is being

played into the 80s. What concerns you for Arizona with an Arkansas team that is playing really

good, its best basketball the season, and just won the SEC tournament? Well, I think Darius Acuff

concerns me more than anything else. A fantastic player. I think one of those guys that,

you know, he, he can direct the flow of the game by himself. And there are very few players

in college basketball that can do that. He's a terrific three-point shooter. He's a great,

you know, slasher to the basket. He's a good passer.

Everything kind of flows through him.

And it's really interesting, you know, having, I watched the tail end of that second round game.

And he's capable of taking over a game, kind of in the way that DeBanza is for VYU, you know, even Darren Peterson at Kansas.

He has that ability to direct a game where he wants it to go.

And he's got great players around him to help him do that.

You know, one thing that I find really interesting about, you know, this team is that he's,

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