Chris Bucknam Named Cross Country, Track and Field Head Coach

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. –- Following 25 seasons and 35 conference championships at Northern Iowa, Chris Bucknam has been named head men's cross country and track and field coach at the University of Arkansas, Vice Chancellor and Director of Athletics Jeff Long announced on Friday.

Bucknam has guided his teams to 35 league titles and six top 20 finishes in NCAA indoor and outdoor championships. He has earned 33 conference coach of the year awards, and produced three national champions and 85 All-America selections.

He was Northern Iowa's head men's track and field coach from 1984-2008 and the women's head coach from 1997-2008 after beginning his career as a men's assistant at UNI in 1979.

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ArkansasSports.com Hires Sports Reporter

Marshall Laney is joining the ArkansasSports.com team as a Razorback sports reporter. Some of you may already know Marshall from his stint as a journalist for the Arkansas Traveler.

Marshall will be providing original sports articles for us. He will initially start off by writing a number of interviews of Razorback football players and coaches who are on campus this summer.

Also over the next few weeks we will be updating the site to fix problems and improve performance. As always, if you have any suggestions, please email me angie@arkansassports.com. Please include the words “site suggestions” in the subject line so I can easily detect them from the gillions of junk mail I get.

Please join me in welcoming Marshall to our team.

Arkansas Beats Tennessee on Hill's Last Second Bucket

His only basket of the game! What a great time to get it. With 5 seconds left in the game, Steve Hill went over the defender and SCORED!!!!!

Nothing but net!

With 12 ties and Arkansas' highest advantage at 3 points, it was a great game. The Hogs never backed down. They stayed in the game -- the whole game.

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