NCAA Tournament March Madness

#17 Arkansas

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Projected seed: 5

Arkansas’s resume is a mix of high-end résumé builders and damaging road stumbles, which makes its current placement understandable; the Razorbacks have signature moments like a neutral-court win over Texas Tech and a marquee home victory over Louisville, and they have proven they can win away from home with road victories at Oklahoma, Mississippi and LSU, but those positives are tempered by heavy losses at Auburn and at Georgia that expose defensive inconsistency. Losses on neutral courts to Duke and Houston are forgivable against elite opponents and don’t erase the resume-building results, yet the profile still needs more reliable performances away from Fayetteville. With upcoming league trips to Alabama and Florida along with notable remaining home opportunities and a nonconference test against Texas, Arkansas has clear chances to add more signature wins and eliminate the kind of bad road results that keep it from being viewed among the very top teams.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3Southern Univ270W109-77
11/8@Michigan St13L69-66
11/11Cent Arkansas163W93-56
11/14Samford206W79-75
11/18Winthrop132W84-83
11/21Jackson St334W115-61
11/27(N)Duke2L80-71
12/3Louisville14W89-80
12/6Fresno St122W82-58
12/13(N)Texas Tech16W93-86
12/16Queens NC204W108-80
12/20(N)Houston4L94-85
12/29James Madison222W103-74
1/3Tennessee19W86-75
1/7@Mississippi81W94-87
1/10@Auburn33L95-73
1/14South Carolina96W108-74
1/17@Georgia43L90-76
1/20Vanderbilt12W93-68
1/24LSU55W85-81
1/27@Oklahoma53W83-79
1/31Kentucky27L85-77
2/7@Mississippi St86W88-68
2/10@LSU55W91-62
2/14Auburn33W88-75
2/17@Alabama1840%
2/18@Alabama1840%
2/21Missouri5485%
2/24Texas A&M3575%
2/25Texas A&M3575%
2/28@Florida524%
3/3Texas2971%
3/4Texas2971%
3/7@Missouri5469%