In only its second home game since lifting the 2019-20 Sun Belt Conference regular-season championship banner at the Jack Stephens Center, the University of Arkansas at Little Rock men's basketball team begins its title defense today with a New Year's Day meeting against Texas-Arlington.
But as the Trojans began their run at another championship, Coach Darrell Walker has reservations about the Trojans' defense and the team's ability to repeat atop the conference.
"We're not the same team we were last year defensively," Walker said before Christmas. "Offensively, can we score the ball? Yeah, we can score the ball.