What's going on everybody?

Curtis Wilkerson with Hoggsports.com coming to you live from Wells Fargo Arena here in Des Moines,

where the Arkansas Razorbacks just knocked off Illinois 73 to advance in the NCAA term.

I couldn't get the arena view today

because we still got basketball going on in this place.

You got Texas and Colgate is at halftime right now.

So I tried to find a decent view where I wasn't around thousands of people where you guys could actually hear me so here's a look at Des Moines

Not too shabby right not too shabby at all. I'm really really having a good time here so far and I'm glad that we get to stay

for a couple more days. Man, survive and advance, baby, that's what it's all about. You guys were

sweating it though in the second half

weren't you I was I was to a little bit I'm not gonna lie whoa it's everything I kind

of expected it to be you know two teams that have been so similar, so many parallels between Arkansas and Illinois

throughout the course of this season and really it felt like it might be kind of a fitting

end to the story for this razorback team

with the way things were trending but Arkansas flipped its own script and

prove that they were the better team in this one. Listen, Arkansas builds an early lead.

I thought that that was really, really important.

I thought a fast start was going to be important for this Arkansas team

because you don't have many guys who've been on this stage right I think that's why we saw

some changes to the starting lineup

Devo you knew he would be in there Arkansas went with Kamani we know he's had

experience here Ricky's a guy who's been coming off the bench in and out of the

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