MBB Preview: Arkansas vs UCA

Who: #21/21 Arkansas Razorbacks (1-1, 0-0 SEC) vs Central Arkansas Bears (1-1, 0-0 ASUN)
What: Game 1 of current four-game homestand
When: Tuesday – Nov. 11 – 7:00 pm (CT)
Where: Fayetteville, Ark. • Bud Walton Arena – Nolan Richardson Court (19,200)
How (to follow):
– TV/Stream: SEC Network Plus/Watch ESPN (Brett Dolan and Manuale Watkins)
– Radio: Learfield Razorback Sports Network (Chuck Barrett and Matt Zimmerman)
– Sirius/XM: Sirius: 123 || XM: 191 || SXM App/Online Channel 961

– Purchase Single Game Tickets

– Arkansas Live Stats
– Razorback Gameday App

– Arkansas Game Notes   
– UCA Game Notes
– SEC Men’s Basketball Release/Stats

FAYETTEVILLE – The #21 Arkansas men’s basketball program starts a four-game homestand on Tuesday (Nov. 11) by hosting Central Arkansas at Bud Walton Arena. Tipoff is set for 7 pm (CT) and the game will be broadcast on SEC Network Plus.

This will be the second consecutive meeting between the two in-state programs and the fourth meeting between the schools since 2020.

NOTES:

• Razorback head coach John Calipari is 22 wins shy of 900 for his career. His next win will give him 879 NCAA Division I, on-court wins, which will tie Dean Smith for sixth on the list.
• Arkansas and UCA met in the 2020-21, 2021-22 and 2024-25 seasons. However, before that, the in-state programs had not met since the 1946-47 season.
• The Razorbacks are 9-0 all-time versus the Bears, including a 5-0 record in games played in Fayetteville.
• The series dates back to Arkansas’s first season of basketball. The teams met on back-to-back days during the 1923-24 season (Jan. 11 and 12) in Fayetteville with the Razorbacks winning 62-27 and 34-14, respectively. The programs also met in the 1933-34 season, on back-to-back days in the 1935-36 seasons and the aforementioned 1946-47 season.
• THE LAST TIME THEY MET • DEC 14, 2024 • ARK: 82 – UCA: 57 @ NLR. Arkansas had six players score in double figures as the Razorbacks cruised to an 82-57 victory over Central Arkansas in the Hogs’ annual trip to Simmons Bank Arena. Arkansas raced out to a 22-7 lead to start the game and never looked back. UCA did get to within 10 after that but the Razorbacks answered with a 9-0 run and led comfortably the rest of the game.
• Coach Cal is 1-0 all-time versus UCA, but is 3-0 versus UCA head coach John Shulman.
  – 11/20/2008 • MEM def UTC • 83-71 in San Juan, PR
  – 12/17/2011 • #3 UK def UTC • 87-62 in Lexington
  – 12/14/2024 • ARK def UCA • 82-57 in North Little Rock

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