NCAA Tournament March Madness

#15 Arkansas

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Projected seed: 4 (automatic qualifier)

Arkansas’s placement reflects a resume built on an electric offense that delivered signature moments at neutral sites and on the road, including a marquee neutral victory over Texas Tech and hard-fought wins away at Oklahoma and Missouri plus home triumphs over Tennessee, Vanderbilt and Texas, which show it can beat quality opponents; that upside is tempered by its worst moments, namely heavy road defeats at Florida, at Alabama and at Auburn and a home setback to Kentucky along with narrow neutral losses to Duke and Houston that highlight defensive lapses and inconsistency. The mixture of big wins in hostile environments and damaging losses explains why the team sits where it does, and the clearest path upward is more clean neutral-site victories over top opponents and avoiding repeat blowouts away from home so those few bad results no longer define the résumé.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3Southern Univ279W109-77
11/8@Michigan St9L69-66
11/11Cent Arkansas153W93-56
11/14Samford215W79-75
11/18Winthrop155W84-83
11/21Jackson St341W115-61
11/27(N)Duke1L80-71
12/3Louisville19W89-80
12/6Fresno St132W82-58
12/13(N)Texas Tech20W93-86
12/16Queens NC181W108-80
12/20(N)Houston5L94-85
12/29James Madison213W103-74
1/3Tennessee16W86-75
1/7@Mississippi65W94-87
1/10@Auburn38L95-73
1/14South Carolina95W108-74
1/17@Georgia32L90-76
1/20Vanderbilt12W93-68
1/24LSU60W85-81
1/27@Oklahoma40W83-79
1/31Kentucky28L85-77
2/7@Mississippi St100W88-68
2/10@LSU60W91-62
2/14Auburn38W88-75
2/18@Alabama18L117-115
2/21Missouri52W94-86
2/25Texas A&M39W99-84
2/28@Florida4L111-77
3/4Texas37W105-85
3/7@Missouri52W88-84
3/13(N)Oklahoma40W82-79
3/14(N)Mississippi65W93-90
3/15(N)Vanderbilt12W86-75