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Mike Neighbors joins Recruiting Thursday

NWA Democrat-Gazette/ANDY SHUPE Newly hired Arkansas women's basketball coach Mike Neighbors (right) leads the room Tuesday, April 4, 2017, in a Hog call alongside Jeff Long, director of athletics, during a ceremony and press conference to announce his hire at the university's basketball practice facility. Visit nwadg.com/photos to see more photographs from the event.

Arkansas women's basketball coach Mike Neighbors joined the Recruiting Thursday radio show to discuss his fast-paced two months on the job, transfers, his plans for some open practices and other topics.

Neighbors, who had a 98-41 record in four seasons at Washington and led the Huskies to the Final Four last year, is a Greenwood native and a 1993 University of Arkansas graduate.

He and his staff have landed Florida State transfer A’Tyanna Gaulden and Oklahoma transfer Chelsea Dungee. Both were top recruits in the 2016 class and will now sit out the 2017-18 season because of NCAA transfer rules.