NCAA Tournament March Madness

#24 Arkansas

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Projected seed: 6

Arkansas’s profile walks the line between solid and vulnerable because the Razorbacks have collected signature victories that show they can beat quality opponents while also suffering damaging neutral-site defeats and offering a mixed story on the road. The resume is bolstered by a hard-fought neutral win over Texas Tech and home victories over Louisville and Tennessee that demonstrate they can impose their offense, but neutral losses to Duke and Houston and a narrow defeat at Michigan State expose a ceiling against top opposition and leave questions about performance away from home. Many of the team's other wins came against overmatched foes and therefore add little separation, so the stretch of conference play ahead is pivotal: road dates at Auburn, Georgia and Alabama and home chances against Kentucky, LSU and Texas give Arkansas concrete opportunities to prove it belongs among the country's better teams or to slide toward a much tougher path in the league tournament. The committee rewards road and neutral success above routine home victories and will judge this resume by how Arkansas fares in those high-leverage settings.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3Southern Univ257W109-77
11/8@Michigan St12L69-66
11/11Cent Arkansas222W93-56
11/14Samford233W79-75
11/18Winthrop150W84-83
11/21Jackson St344W115-61
11/27(N)Duke8L80-71
12/3Louisville15W89-80
12/6Fresno St146W82-58
12/13(N)Texas Tech19W93-86
12/16Queens NC208W108-80
12/20(N)Houston11L94-85
12/29James Madison210W103-74
1/3Tennessee16W86-75
1/7@Mississippi6763%
1/10@Auburn3648%
1/14South Carolina6882%
1/17@Georgia3043%
1/20Vanderbilt639%
1/24LSU4172%
1/27@Oklahoma4853%
1/31Kentucky2562%
2/7@Mississippi St7865%
2/10@LSU4151%
2/14Auburn3669%
2/17@Alabama1430%
2/21Missouri6080%
2/24Texas A&M4373%
2/25Texas A&M4373%
2/28@Florida1329%
3/3Texas5377%
3/4Texas5377%
3/7@Missouri6061%