It's never ideal to play shorthanded, much less so when you're going up against the No. 10 team in the nation.
That was the case, however, when the University of Arkansas at Little Rock met the University of Arkansas on Saturday afternoon in Fayetteville. The Trojans had only seven players available, with their most notable absence being standout big man Nikola Maric, who will be out multiple weeks with a hamstring injury suffered Nov. 22 against Northern Illinois.
"We missed him [against Arkansas]," UALR Coach Darrell Walker said of Maric. "We can throw the ball into him and he can score or get fouled down in the post.