FAYETTEVILLE -- The No. 17 Razorbacks will return home on Wednesday night to host South Carolina for an 8 p.m. tip on the SEC Network.

Arkansas (12-4, 2-1) is trying to bounce back from a one-sided 95-73 loss at Auburn this past Saturday. South Carolina (10-6, 1-2) owns an SEC win over LSU, but lost to Georgia and Vanderbilt. Their lone win in the SEC was the one road game they played. Darius Acuff previewed Wednesday's game on Tuesday, but first commented on winning SEC Freshman of the Week five consecutive times.

"That's very special," Acuff said. "Just going, seeing the list of names that won it four times. That was amazing to see, knowing they were coached by Coach Cal (John Calipari). But yeah, it's definitely a blessing to have that. But I just want to keep going. You know, keep the season going. Hopefully get more wins."

Acuff was asked about the team since the loss on Saturday emphasized.

"The message has been real clear," Acuff said. "We had a hard practice yesterday. So we know what we got to do in these next couple games. We got to defend, we know we got to get back to our brand of basketball. Just play tough and just beat those guys for 40 minutes."

While it was a hard practice Monday, what has Calipari emphasized?

"Just same as always, just play together," Acuff said. "Let’s be smarter with the ball on offense. We had a lot of bad turnovers that led to bad defensive transition. Just being more careful with the ball on offense and just play together. It doesn’t really change. We just had a rough loss on the road."

Calipari has maintained all season that one of Acuff's strengths despite being a true freshman is how steady he plays.

"I feel like that's always been a trait for me, just being steady, being poised," Acuff said. "I feel like that's always been one of my good traits. But appreciate that from him, though, coming from him, that's amazing. But, yeah, that's definitely something I always want to do. I always want to be steady and poised, you know, just have that piece to me, so I can do what I want to do."

Meechie Johnson is a 6-2 senior guard who leads the Gamecocks in several categories. He tops the team averaging 13.8 points, 4.0 assists and 1.2 steals while also pulling down 3.4 rebounds per game. Acuff was in eighth grade when Johnson was a true freshman at Ohio State.

"I used to watch when he was in college, I’ve seen a couple games, of course, when I was in high school, watching him on TV," Acuff said. "Obviously he played at Ohio State and stuff. I know the history of it for sure. But I haven’t watched a lot of it, but I’ve watched some, so I know he’s a great scorer, great shooter and he can get hot at any minute."

Following the game, Calipari said that was a burn the tape game, but Acuff said the players watched it.

"Yeah, for sure," Acuff said. "You’ve gotta watch the film as players to see what happened. Especially… You just gotta watch it because you want to see what we can fix so we won’t bring it to the next game. Like I said, the careless turnovers we had, we can’t have that. I had a couple bad ones. We gotta watch. The assistant coaches went over some of the film with us, so it was good to see some of the dumb mistakes that I made, for sure. Just gotta fix that."

Acuff also gave an overall view of Wednesday's opponent.

"They're a great team," Acuff said. "They're tough. Like I said, they’ve got a couple good guards. They can get hot, not just Meechie, but they got a couple more guards. They can shoot and they can score a little bit. We just know we’ve got to be prepared. We’ve got to defend, stay in front of the ball, just close out with high hands."

The Razorbacks will go back on the road Saturday to face Georgia in Athens. Acuff is averaging 19.9 points, 2.8 rebounds and 5.9 assists per game. He is shooting 48.7% from the field and 42.5% from deep.