STARTING FIVE
• Little Rock and Sam Houston State meet for the seventh time with the teams splitting the previous six meetings.
• Last season, the Bearkats earned a 57-55 win over the Trojans in Huntsville in the teams' first meeting since 1996.
• The game against the Bearkats marks the fourth of seven-straight games the Trojans will play in the central Arkansas region, six of which will be at the Jack Stephens Center.
• Little Rock continues to rank among the top of the Sun Belt Conference in field goal percentage, sitting second in the league and 44th nationally shooting 49.