No. 3 Arkansas sinks teeth into No. 14 Colgate after being on upset alert

Eric Musselman squeezed a tube of toothpaste onto the locker room floor as he talked to his Arkansas Razorbacks before their first-round NCAA tournament game.

“We’ve got to squeeze Colgate,” he said as the minty white paste fell from the red tube.

He made a pun before seemingly everybody else got in their tooth-related jokes Friday afternoon. Colgate was the top trending topic on Twitter for a moment.

After all, it was the No. 14 Raiders who came out in mint condition, kicking the third-seeded Razorbacks in the teeth and brushing them aside. They jumped out to a 14-point lead and appeared on their way to the first big upset of this NCAA tournament at Bankers Life Fieldhouse.

But that possibility eventually went down the tube, just like Musselman’s toothpaste. Colgate became crestfallen.

Arkansas used a 17-0 run before halftime to erase its deficit on the way to an 85-68 round victory.

While we know what happened in the locker room before the game, how about afterward?

Arkansas Razorbacks coach Eric Musselman during the first round of the 2021 NCAA Tournament against the Colgate Raiders on Friday, March 19, 2021, at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Ind.
“There was no celebrating,” Musselman said. “In the other tournaments we’ve been able to advance in, there was always celebrating even after Game 1. When I walked in and asked if they were happy, they said, ‘Coach, we were supposed to win.’”

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The Razorbacks, now 23-6 and ranked 10th in the final polls, will play Texas Tech in the second round.

Colgate (14-2) entered with the third-longest winning streak in the nation (13) and was ninth in the NCAA NET rankings. Although it was a double-digit seed, it had been discussed as a possible upset pick throughout the week and backed it up.

Arkansas Razorbacks fans during the first round of the 2021 NCAA Tournament against the Colgate Raiders on Friday, March 19, 2021, at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Ind.
That at least was until it went scoreless for the final 5:28 of the first half. Colgate was 0-for-7 from the field with six turnovers after taking a 14-point lead.

Arkansas outscored Colgate by 31 the rest of the way and a rowdy Arkansas crowd spent the rest of the afternoon hog calling.

“I thought that maybe our inexperience in the tournament showed the first 10 minutes of the game,” Musselman said after. “Then I thought we got a little bit settled in, maybe after the nerves of that first 10 minutes. I thought our defense was incredible.”

Colgate coach Matt Langel said: “It’s definitely disappointing. I think the country got to see the team that we are with the lead that we got. Obviously, we weren't able — the game's 40 minutes and Arkansas was very deserving of the victory.”

Former Indiana University standout Justin Smith, now a graduate transfer at Arkansas, scored a game-high 29 points and grabbed 13 rebounds in his ninth double-double. He set a career scoring high and also had five steals.

Fans chanted his name as the team walked off the court.

Arkansas Razorbacks forward Justin Smith (0) dunks the ball during the first round of the 2021 NCAA Tournament against the Colgate Raiders on Friday, March 19, 2021, at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Ind.
“Early on in the first half, we were letting them be too comfortable,” Smith said. “Then coach made the decision to start pressing them. That let us speed them up and have us play the way we want to play.

“The last four minutes of the first half showed us how we were going to win this game.”

Musselman talked in his hotel room Thursday night with his son Michael, the program’s director of recruiting, and they decided they’d use a full-court press at some point. They didn’t know when. But it was time once they were down 14 to a No. 14 seed.

It worked.

No. 14 seeds are now 21-120 all-time against No. 3 seeds. The last upset came from Stephen F. Austin in 2016.

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The Razorbacks are one win away from their first Sweet 16 since 1996.

“As a group, we may have been tight, but we were just figuring out what they were doing,” Smith said. “They were different than we had played all year. We can’t get behind by that, especially in this tournament, but once we got loose, we were ready to go.”

Despite being a part of a politically-turbulent region, Turkey continues to stick to its democratic tradition.

Since the Charter of Alliance (Sened-i Ittifak) was signed between the sultan and prominent landowners in 1808, Turkey’s democratic journey has persevered despite occasional setbacks. As a young state, the Republic of Turkey has gradually been completing the formidable process of democratic institutionalization.

While I was writing this article, two topics that set Turkey’s political agenda were the closure case against the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) and the HDP lawmaker Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu's being stripped of deputyship by a court ruling for spreading terrorist propaganda.

In order to evaluate Turkey’s current political agenda, it is necessary to understand the historical process which has formed it.

When the Syrian civil war erupted, the U.S. administration expected that Turkey would wage a direct war against the Syrian regime. Even though they supported the legitimate oppositional groups in Syria, the Turkish government did not engage in direct combat with Bashar Assad's regime.

After the killing of the U.S. ambassador to Libya, Washington drastically changed its Syrian policy. Renouncing its former policy of supporting a change of system in Syria, the U.S. began to part company with Turkey.

Even though Turkey’s responsibility in the Syrian civil war was heavy, especially in terms of the refugee crisis, the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) government initiated a reconciliation process under the leadership of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

While people in general were enthusiastically supporting the very peace process, oppositional political parties were critical of the ongoing process without sabotaging it.

Being resentful about Turkey’s active involvement in the Syrian civil war, both Iran and the Syrian regime convinced the PKK via former Iraqi President Jalal Talabani to abandon the peace process.

Putting its trust in the U.S. support, the PKK terminated the negotiations and launched a series of terrorist attacks to signal the end of the reconciliation process.

In the meantime, terrorist group Daesh increased its attacks against Turkey, while the Gülenist Terror Group (FETÖ) attempted a coup d’etat that failed thanks to the civilian resistance of the people.

During this period, Turkey struggled against these three terrorist groups, while pursuing its active foreign policy in the Syrian civil war.

Turkey has been largely successful in its struggle against these terrorist groups. As the Turkish army dealt devastating blows to the PKK in Syria and Iraq in successive military operations, families protesting the abduction of their children by the PKK have created a strong anti-PKK sentiment around the country.

Today, the struggle of these Diyarbakır mothers to take their children back from the PKK continues with determination.

For the consolidation of Turkey’s democracy, it is necessary that the HDP should pursue a constructive politics, which is independent from the PKK.

The reforms begin
While the Turkish state resumes its struggle against terrorism, the government initiated a reform process.