Red-White rosters, coaches set for Friday

Head coach Mike Anderson talks to the press Monday Oct. 1, 2018 at Bud Walton Arena in Fayetteville.

FAYETTEVILLE — Arkansas basketball fans will get their first look at the new-look Razorbacks on Friday night in Bud Walton Arena.

Arkansas’ annual Red-White game, which is free and open to the public, will tip off at 7:10 p.m. following a dunk contest at 7 p.m. Tuesday evening, Mike Anderson, entering his eighth season as coach of the Razorbacks, released the rosters for the team’s first scrimmage:

Red

Isaiah Joe

Jalen Harris

Daniel Gafford

Emeka Obukwelu (walk-on)

Jonathan Holmes

Gabe Osabuohien

Ibby Ali

White

Desi Sills

Adrio Bailey

Ty Stevens (walk-on)

Keyshawn Embery

Mason Jones

Ethan Henderson

Reggie Chaney

A pair of former Razorbacks will coach each team. Joe Kleine, a two-time All-Southwest Conference selection and sixth overall pick in the 1985 NBA Draft, and Charles Balentine, who in 1984 famously hit the game-winner with four seconds remaining to beat Michael Jordan-led North Carolina in Pine Bluff, will coach the Red team.

Corey Beck, who guided Arkansas to its lone national championship in 1994 and back to the national title game in 1995, and Elmer Martin, a former Harlem Globetrotter and high school and college teammate of Beck, will lead the White team.

Doors open at 5:45 p.m. and an autograph session begins at 6 p.m.