Richardson says Florida players can shoot jsphhou

FAYETTEVILLE (AP) -- Arkansas coach Nolan Richardson said his young Razorbacks will face a team of shooters when they host No. 11 Florida on Tuesday. "They don't have a player that can't shoot,"

Monday, February 14th 2000, 12:00 am

By: News On 6

FAYETTEVILLE (AP) -- Arkansas coach Nolan Richardson said his young Razorbacks will face a team of shooters when they host No. 11 Florida on Tuesday. "They don't have a player that can't shoot," Richardson said Tuesday. "All those guys can shoot. At times, they are pushing it and shooting threes, and at other times they try to work it inside, and then send it back out to spot up. I have seen them in zones."

Richardson said the Razorbacks have faced a tough schedule this season. Arkansas is 13-10 overall. Florida is 18-5. "I think that is the real big difference," he said "When you have a schedule like we did when we only had two games early at home and we lost one of them....South Carolina, we didn't play very good and we still aren't very good."

Richardson said it has been hard for his young team to be out on the road. "It's one of those years that even though we are home we are playing the top teams in the country," he said. "It's just one of those kinds of things. I'm guessing they didn't envision when we got to this point in the year that we would be going against top 25 teams from here on out."

Arkansas has six games against the top 25. "I don't think there is a team in the country that has to do that with conference teams," he said. "Lucky Arkansas. We've got them all." Richardson said that all he asks of his team is to play hard. "If it turns out that we do real well, then we have decided our destiny for ourselves," Richardson said. "Everybody has us buried, but the sand has not been kicked in our face yet. We still have some breathing room. We certainly dug a big hole and got init, but we have some time to get out."