Preview – 21/22 Razorbacks Close Out Home Non-Conference Schedule, Host Arkansas State

FAYETTEVILLE – The No. 21/22 Arkansas girls’s basketball staff (11-0) will host in-state foe Arkansas State on Sunday, Dec. 11 for a 3 p.m. tipoff. This recreation will conclude Arkansas’ non-conference slate at dwelling earlier than the Razorbacks hit the highway for 3 extra video games subsequent weekend previous to the graduation of SEC play. Sunday’s recreation would be the first time an Arkansas State staff will play at Bud Walton Enviornment, as these earlier matchups earlier than the 42-year ban was ordered passed off in Barnhill Enviornment.

GAME INFORMATION
Date: Sunday, Dec. 11
Time: 3 p.m.
Opponent: Arkansas State
Location: Bud Walton Enviornment
Watch: SECN
Hear: Razorback Sports activities Community from Learfield
Promotions:

• Children 12 and beneath get in free with a paying grownup ($10 day of recreation tickets)
• Followers are inspired to put on their cheesy vacation sweaters/shirts
• Signature Sunday: staff can be out there postgame for autographs
• Followers can have the chance to get their footage taken with the Razorback mascots

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Arkansas Sport Notes
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STORYLINES

• Arkansas girls’s basketball is a nationally ranked staff, coming in at No. 21in the week 5 AP Ballot and No. 22 within the WBCA Coaches Ballot, which is the primary time this system has been ranked for the reason that 2020-21 season
• The Razorbacks are 11-0, which continues to be the perfect begin within the Mike Neighbors period at Arkansas and finest for this system since 2013 (when that staff began the 12 months 13-0)
• Following a number of upsets on Thursday, Arkansas is now certainly one of 13 remaining undefeated groups within the nation
• The staff’s 11 wins is tied with Virginia for probably the most within the nation
• Arkansas is certainly one of three unbeaten groups within the SEC (South Carolina and LSU the opposite two)
• For simply the fourth time in program historical past, the Razorbacks have began a season 11-0
• With a win, Arkansas will start the 12 months 12-0 for the primary time since 2013 and third time in program historical past
• Sunday’s recreation in opposition to Arkansas State wraps up the Razorbacks’ four-game homestand. Arkansas is at present on a six-game successful streak at dwelling
• Arkansas is seeking to enhance to 11-0 in opposition to in-state colleges for the reason that 40+-year ban was lifted in 2020
• The Razorbacks scored a season-low 63 factors of their 63-50 win over Lamar, however was locked in on protection to carry the Cardinals to only 17 factors on 17.2 p.c taking pictures from the sector within the second half
• The staff has continued to indicate how any participant one by way of 5 on the court docket can get sizzling at any minute, as 4 gamers are averaging double-digits in scoring
• Samara Spencer is the staff’s main scorer with 15.5 factors per recreation. She has additionally racked up 49 assists, together with her 4.5 assists per recreation being the fifth most within the SEC
• Saylor Poffenbarger assaults the glass like no person’s enterprise, main the staff with 8.0 rebounds per recreation with three 10+ rebound video games. She additionally leads the staff in blocks (14)
• Erynn Barnum and Makayla Daniels tie for probably the most steals on the staff with 19. Each are averaging double digits in scoring with 14.8 factors and 13.3 factors per recreation, respectively
• Barnum’s discipline objective share continues to guide the SEC at .667
• Chrissy Carr is the fourth Razorback in double digits in scoring with 13.3 factors per recreation, whereas main the staff with 28 3-pointers. She is likely one of the finest outdoors shooters within the SEC, second in each 3-pointers per recreation (2.55) and 3-point share (.346)
• Arkansas leads the SEC in defensive rebounding share, which might be probably the most spectacular stat the staff leads the league in, holding a .766 share
• The staff can also be main the SEC in 3-pointers per recreation (8.3), 3-point makes an attempt per recreation (26.5) and free throw makes an attempt per recreation (28.45)
• No person within the nation will get to the free throw line just like the Razorbacks, because the staff is main the nation in free throw makes an attempt per recreation
• Neighbors’ groups prior to now few years haven’t been recognized for rebounding the ball successfully, however that has modified, because the Razorbacks have outrebounded opponents in 10 of 11 video games. The staff’s 33.5 defensive rebounds per recreation is the third most within the nation

SCOUTING ARKANSAS STATE

• The Purple Wolves are a fair 4-4 coming into Sunday’s recreation in Fayetteville
• Arkansas State has received 4 of their final six video games, highlighted by dropping 100 factors at McNeese State (W, 102-83) and taking down Utah State (W, 63-57)
• Mizzou switch Izzy Higginbottom leads the Purple Wolves with 15.4 factors per recreation, together with 37 assists and 18 steals
• Leilani Augmon pulls down 8.0 rebounds per recreation to guide the staff
• Arkansas State was projected to complete ninth within the Solar Belt amongst 14 groups
• Keya Patton was picked to the Preseason All-Solar Belt First Group, whereas Lauryn Pendleton was chosen to the Third Group. Final season, Patton led the staff with 14.3 factors per recreation and Pendleton tallied 11.3 factors per recreation together with 37 assists and 31 stelas
• The Purple Wolves completed final season 12-16, 5-9 within the Solar Belt. Arkansas State misplaced to Coastal Carolina within the first spherical of the Solar Belt Match, 91-76
• Head coach Destinee Rogers assumed the helm halfway by way of the 12 months final season, serving as interim coach in December earlier than formally taking on within the last eight video games of the 2021-22 season

HISTORY AGAINST THE RED WOLVES

• Sunday’s recreation would be the tenth of the sequence
• Arkansas has the slight edge within the sequence at 6-3
• The Razorbacks are 3-0 in opposition to the Purple Wolves inside Barnhill Enviornment
• In final 12 months’s recreation, Arkansas received in Jonesboro, 94-71. Daniels led the staff with 22 factors, eight rebounds and 4 assists, whereas Spencer had 16 factors off the bench
• Previous to final 12 months’s assembly, the 2 groups met within the WNIT in 2005, and Arkansas misplaced in Jonesboro, 98-84. The sport that 12 months was the primary time the 2 groups performed since 1983

LAST TIME OUT

• Arkansas confronted its hardest activity to date on Thursday, because the staff defeated Lamar, 63-50, behind a season-low quantity in factors
• The Razorbacks trailed 33-31 at halftime, the primary time the staff was behind at halftime this 12 months, however was locked in on protection within the second half to carry the Cardinals to 17 factors on 17.2 p.c taking pictures within the second half
• The newcomers, Carr and Poffenbarger, made massive pictures down the stretch for the Razorbacks
• Carr led the sport with 18 factors off 4 3-pointers
• Poffenbarger earned her second consecutive double-double with a career-high 17 factors and 12 rebounds together with 5 assists, three blocks and two steals
• Spencer tallied 17 factors and shot 16 free throws. She additionally added 4 assists
• Arkansas outrebounded its opponent for the tenth time this season with the slight edge, 37-36

UPCOMING

The Razorbacks will end the non-conference slate away from dwelling, because the staff will kick off its highway journey in Omaha, Nebraska to face Creighton. The sport is about for a 1 p.m. tipoff with protection of the sport being broadcast on FloSports.

MORE INFORMATION

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