What's going on everybody? Curtis Wilkerson with Hawkesports.com coming to you from

outside team mobile arena here in Las Vegas following a not so sweet 16 loss for the

razorbacks to the Yukon Huskies 88 to 65. The final in this one

was not pretty and to be quite honest with, I hate doing these stand-ups after games like this, especially at the end of the season.

It's not a lot of fun, but it has to be done, right?

It almost feels like giving a eulogy on a season and a team

that you've spent a lot of time covering and invested into and I can only

imagine what the guys in that locker room feel like who've been going to war since the summer

Preparing for this year going through the obstacles they've gone through and to get to this point has been really impressive

But unless you're the last team standing, only one team that

comes to this tournament ends with a victory. Unless you're that team, it never ends the way

you want it to and those losses are tough they sting I feel for

must and I and I feel for those guys I've got to admit it's been three years in a

row now that a season has ended for the razorbacks and I felt the same way. I felt like

they ran into a buzz saw. I felt that way against Baylor two years ago in

Indianapolis. I felt that way against Duke last season.

Even though they lost the next game against North Carolina in the final four, I thought

that they were playing like the best team in the country and this Yukon team tonight looked incredible.

So credit where it's due, they dominated on both sides of the ball and this one.

I would be surprised if they go down on Saturday.

Now that I said that, they probably will, but they

certainly looked a part of a contender. They were absolutely the better team in

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