New coach Kelsi Musick promises to bring ‘high-octane’ offense to Arkansas women’s basketball
FAYETTEVILLE — Kelsi Musick began her stint as the Arkansas women’s basketball coach with a simple promise.
“I run a high-octane offense, so the one other thing that we love to do is put points on the board,” she said. “We’re not going to play slow, we’re going to play fast. We’re going to get up and down and force the issue on the offensive end.”
Her teams do, in fact, play fast.
This season at Oral Roberts, the Golden Eagles played at the No. 6 tempo in the country, according to BartTorvik, and scored 80 or more points 16 times this season — including a 94-73 victory over Arkansas on Nov. 21 at Bud Walton Arena.
The five teams that played faster than Oral Roberts this season were Oklahoma, North Carolina Central, Niagara, Tennessee and Troy.
