FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Riding a four-game winning streak in SEC play, the Arkansas men's basketball team will step out of league play on Saturday afternoon, traveling to Oklahoma State to take part in the SEC/Big 12 Challenge at Gallagher-Iba Arena.
The Rundown
Date: Saturday, Jan. 28
Tip-off: 3 p.m. CT
TV: ESPNU
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The #Fastest40 Facts
• Entering the fourth annual #BIG12SEC Challenge, Arkansas is 1-1 all-time in the event, falling at Iowa State in 2014-15 and knocking off Texas Tech last season.
• A win Saturday would mark Arkansas’ best 21-game start in the last 19 years when the Razorbacks started 18-3 during the 1997-98 season.
• Arkansas has trailed by at least a dozen points in each of its last three road victories this season, including in the second half of the last two wins.
• Arkansas is 7-3 in its last 10 games away from Bud Walton Arena, including a 5-1 mark in its last six SEC road contests.
• The Razorbacks are 5-0 in their last five contests decided by one possession, the longest such streak since the 1994-95 season.
• Arkansas has won six straight games decided by four points or less, including four of those coming on the road.
• Mike Anderson’s 17 SEC road wins in the last five-plus seasons is three more than Arkansas had in the previous 10 years before he took over.
• The Razorbacks are one of eight high-major teams in the country to score 90-plus points in seven games this season.
• Arkansas checks in at No. 28 in the daily NCAA RPI after four straight conference wins. The Razorbacks have a 6-3 record against the top 100 RPI and have nine wins against top 150 RPI teams. The SEC has six top 50 teams and 11 teams in the top 100.
• Daryl Macon has scored Arkansas’ first points in seven of the last 12 games, with five of those seven buckets coming from behind the arc.
• Arkansas has scored double-digit points off turnovers in all 20 games this season after turning 15 Vanderbilt turnovers into 16 points on Tuesday.
• The Razorbacks are second in the SEC and rank 33rd in the country in free throw percentage at 75.5 percent, averaging 18.8 made free throws per game.
The Oklahoma State Series
• The Razorbacks and Cowboys have not played since the 2003-04 when Arkansas fell to OSU 73-58 in Fayetteville. Arkansas returns to Stillwater for the first time since the 2002-03 season.
• Arkansas has lost four straight in the series, as Oklahoma State leads the all-time series 36-14. The Razorbacks are 4-12 in Stillwater.
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