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,

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.

Johnell Davis scored a season-high 24 points and Arkansas made 11 of 13 free throws in the last 62 seconds to hold off Texas 78-70 on Wednesday night.