FAYETTEVILLE - Successive losing seasons inevitably evoke a change for change's sake.

That as much as anything appears the cause for Arkansas’ basketball assistant coaching change.

Razorbacks head coach John Pelphrey, returning but under pressure with his Hogs successively 14-16 and 14-18 and not dancing in the NCAA Big Dance, last week announced assistant coach Isaac Brown would be assigned to an administrative role.

For all of Pelphrey’s three Arkansas seasons since coming from his previous head coaching post at South Alabama, Pelphrey’s staff has consiste...