Arkansas State women’s basketball to face No. 21 Arkansas in Fayetteville for first time since 1980

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (KAIT) – Arkansas State girls’s basketball (4-4) can have one other robust street take a look at, happening the street to face #21 Arkansas (11-0) at Bud Walton Enviornment Sunday afternoon at 3:00 PM on the SEC Community.

The Pink Wolves will return the home-and-home after falling 94-71 to the Razorbacks final season at First Nationwide Financial institution Enviornment.

Arkansas has dominated defensively this season, holding opponents to only 57 factors per sport and 33 p.c taking pictures from the sphere, each high 50 nationally. Samara Spencer leads the best way in scoring at over 15 factors per sport.

The Hogs rank high 15 nationally in free throw fee (1st), opponent discipline purpose proportion (twelfth), opponent two-point discipline purpose proportion (seventh) and opponent factors per scoring try (eleventh). Her Hoop Stats grades them because the nation’s Twenty fifth-best crew, whereas the NCAA NET Rankings rank them at 29.

A-State, led by Izzy Higginbottom at additionally over 15 a sport, is 4-4 and trying to rebound after a loss at North Alabama. It will likely be the Pink Wolves’ third straight street sport. Her Hoop Stats ranks the Pink Wolves eleventh within the Solar Belt (243 total), tenth within the NCAA NET Rankings (255 total).

“I’m upset,” A-State head coach Destinee Rogers stated on the EAB Pink Wolves Sports activities Community after the UNA sport. “I’m upset in our lack of effort. With our scrambles defensively and simply letting them have their approach. All we will do is attempt to work towards Sunday after which attempt to do higher on Sunday.”

Sunday will mark A-State’s first journey to Fayetteville since 1980, a sport the Razorbacks gained 57-50. Arkansas is 6-3 all-time within the sequence. The final Pink Wolf win was in 2005, the place the then-Girl Indians beat the Hogs within the WNIT 98-84. A crowd of 10,892 had been there to see a uncommon matchup between the two largest faculties within the Pure State, the most important recorded on the artist previously generally known as the Convo.

“We’ll pull out the video,” Arkansas head coach Mike Neighbors stated. “We’ll remind them. It’s a fantastic budding of a rivalry, their crew is much like Lamar, their crew is constructed equally. Robust guard play. Undersized submit that do what they do. And it’s was a pleasant little rivalry. We had a struggle over there final time. It was not a hospitable atmosphere so I’ll problem our individuals to come back out on Sunday and ensure we’re prepared for the Pink Wolves”

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