With Arkansas mired in the muck of a 1-6 start to SEC play, first-year coach John Calipari sent out a motivational text to his team with a message of inspiration that could essentially be boiled down to this: If you're going to have success,

Arkansas held Texas under 35 percent from the field and picked up back-to-back wins in SEC play for the first time with a 78-70 win over the Longhorns, staving off a furious comeback attempt. Johnell Davis led the Razorbacks with a new season-high 24 points,

For the first time in 35 years, the Arkansas Razorbacks defeated the Texas Longhorns on their home court, earning a crucial 78-70 victory.

A slow start proved too much for Texas to overcome against surging Arkansas. The Longhorns will try and rebound Saturday at Vanderbilt.