I just polished off a couple of stories on the Arkansas basketball team, which begins practice tomorrow night.

Plenty of news, notes and quotes were crammed into the space. Most of it dealt with the offseason turmoil surrounding the program.

But while I was working on all that, Arkansas did release two news items worth mentioning here on the blog:

• The FoxSports.com love for the Razorbacks continues. A couple days after guard Rotnei Clarke was named the nation’s top shooter, forward Marshawn Powell was named one of 20 impact freshman. Powell, who has shed 25 pounds since arriving on campus and is expected to aid Michael Washington in the frontcourt immediately, was listed at No. 18 on the FoxSports.com list.

• Arkansas announced that Razorback Sports Network has finalized a six-game broadcast schedule for nonconference games. Here are the six games that will be on TV in addition to what has already been set: Nov. 27 (East Tennessee St), Dec. 2 (Oklahoma), Dec. 16 (Alabama St.), Dec. 19 (Stephen F. Austin), Dec. 22 (Missouri St.) and Jan. 2 (Alabama-Birmingham). Where can you watch those games? Here is what is listed — KFTA (Ch. 24) in Fayetteville, KATV (Ch. 7) in Little Rock and KAIT (Ch. in Jonesboro.