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January 27, 1982
sports
Scott Hastings
Arkansas basketball star center of attraction
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f 1982 nuilated since beginning his
f ers t0 ^ Razorback career, he might not
that (| t need a head start. Since his entr-
ransfer iro ailie ‘ nto Arkansas basketball
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mtsofthi bastings has noticed a big du-
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We were watching some
that KmWt the other da y [ rom m y
asset to the8J marl y e f> and .^ey were
s officiallv®"y kind of funr, y’ Hastings
said. “I was really skinny back
. then.”
at inv esi» t the start of his first year at
Arkansas, Hastings was 6-9 and
weighed only 185 pounds. Since
that time, the public relations
major has added one inch and
50 pounds to his frame, making
him a formidable obstacle in the
path of any opponent meeting
pint on the basketball court.
“I like competition,” Hastings
said. “I feel like I’m a competi-
fter foulmt tive % uy ’ es P eciall y with the ( wi . n -
, ning) situation at the University
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.. or Arkansas.
j ine j [■‘‘When you get letters from
[ . ? 1 . 1 ' I' little kids who say‘hey, we think
uns iei ' y OU > re great,’ it really motivates
and yonj’
doul J le fe ( Hastings, the Razorback scor-
11 a ingleader each of the past three
pul 'T 1 years, said that basketball was
foberis Qace a near jy unknown sport in
t havept t j )e footbaiPoriented state of
|usi wante ■^|r] cansa s > However, he said,
ist a daiii w j, en (joaf-gj Eddie Sutton ar
rived at UA eight seasons ago,
the sport began to gain recogni
tion.
“When Coach Sutton came,
people became more aware of
P college and high school basket-
f Q] ball, and became more in-
by Frank L. Christlieb
Sports Editor
Many college basketball play
ers dream of someday playing
on the professional level. But
Scott Hastings, the University of
Arkansas’ 6-10 senior center,
has ajump on his fellow athletes.
“I can always remember play
ing basketball in the back yard
with all my friends when I was in
fifth and sixth grade,” Hastings
said Tuesday. “I had real close
friend named Craig Null, and
we used to play all the time. We
used to call our league the NBA
— the Null Basketball Associa-
Photo by Todd Woodard
Arkansas Razorback center Scott Hastings walks down-
court during his team’s 64-63 victory Tuesday night over
Texas A&M. Hastings has had a brilliant career since
starting college four years ago, leading the team in scoring
for each of the past three seasons.
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terested in it,” Hastings said.
Hastings said he’d like to play
in the NBA, but he stresses that
he’s concentrating only on the
Razorbacks’ season now.
“Anytime anyone gets serious
about basketball, he wants to go
as far as he can,” Hastings said.
“People say ‘you’re great and
you’re going to play in the pros,’
but you really have to keep ev
erything in perspective and do
what’s best for you and your
team.”
He added that the luck
dominates in the world of pro
fessional basketball.
“It’s really a luck thing,” Hast
ings said. “You can be a very
good player and get drafted by a
team that doesn’t really need
you. You just have to get lucky.”
Hastings said Moncrief was a
great inspiration to him, and
that the NBA star “typifies ev
erything you would want out of
a basketball player.”
Hastings said his experiences
at Arkansas have been as valu
able as any he’s had. Playing
against Indiana State’s Larry
Bird, now with the Boston Cel
tics, stands out in his mind as one
of the most memorable events.
Hastings and his Arkansas team
mates lost to Bird and the Syca
mores in the NCAA regionals
during his freshman year.
Hastings also recalled last
year’s half-court shot by U.S.
Reed to defeat the Louisville
Cardinals in the NCAA tourna
ment.
Although many basketball
followers classify him as a “dirty”
player, Hastings doesn’t agree
with their assessments. It was
Hastings whom most people
blamed for an outbreak of fists
and tempers during last season’s
Arkansas 65-61 win over Texas
A&M in G. Rollie White Col
iseum.
“The two games I really got a
lot of puff about were the Texas
A&M game last year and one of
the Texas games,” Hastings
said. “I don’t know why people
have said that about me. I always
play hard, but I never felt like
I’d given anyone an unjust
elbow or anything. I mean, I’m
the one who never weighed
much, and I’m the guy who
would get the broken bones if I
hit the floor.”
Hastings said he has confi
dence that the Razorbacks are
still in the thick of the Southwest
Conference race.
“We feel that if we can win
some on the road, we’re going to
have a real good chance,” Hast
ings said. “People were saying
that we never had been tested in
going down to the wire — they
really didn’t think that we
could.”
After the Razorback’s last-
second wins over Houston and
Texas A&M during the past
four days, no one should say that
anymore.
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