However, he decided he had to change his life and he resigned the head coaching position to take an administrative job at the University of Arkansas.

Coach Gary Blair asked him to help out with camps, then with viewing opponents' videos to write scouting reports.

[6] After two years as director of basketball operations at Arkansas, Neighbors became an assistant coach at Tulsa under Kathy McConnell-Miller.

After one year at Colorado, Susie Gardner persuaded Neighbors to return to Arkansas, this time as a full assistant.

McGuff, who had signed a three-year contract extension just three weeks earlier, was persuaded to return to his home state.

[14] In the 2015–16 postseason, the Huskies were picked as an at-large bid as a #7 seed in the 2016 NCAA tournament in the Lexington region.

After beating #10 seed Penn 65–53, the Huskies upset #2 Maryland on their homecourt 74–65 to advance to the Sweet 16 for the first time since 2001.

[15] On April 3, 2017, Neighbors was announced as the ninth coach in program history at his alma mater, where he once served as director of basketball operations and as an assistant.

They won their opening round SEC Tournament game over Vanderbilt, before succumbing to former Arkansas coach Gary Blair and his Texas A&M team, 82–52.

Neighbors coached his team into the SEC Women's Tournament championship game versus #5 Mississippi State, defeating Georgia, #12 South Carolina, and #15 Texas A&M on consecutive days.

But the Razorbacks lost to Mississippi St. Arkansas accepted a bid to the 2019 Women's National Invitation Tournament (WNIT), beating Houston and UAB in the first two rounds at Bud Walton Arena in Fayetteville.

Neighbors entered his fourth season coming off arguably the best season for the Hogs ever in the Southeastern Conference, as his 2019–20 Hogs became one of just two teams to ever win 10 games in the league, while his most recent squad was one of just three Razorback teams in the SEC era to finish above .500 in the league.

Arkansas defeated both Baylor and Connecticut at home in his fourth season, the first time the Razorbacks had knocked off two top five teams in the same year.