It is how college basketball teams are measured.
Winning regular-season championships means nothing if teams don't make the NCAA Tournament.
That has become the benchmark in college basketball.
Fans already are asking whether the Arkansas Razorbacks are an NCAA Tournament team, and while it is way too early to answer that, people in central Arkansas get a chance to see for themselves tonight when the Hogs host Sam Houston State at Verizon Arena in North Little Rock.
Plenty of tickets are available, and that's because the Razorbacks have been a tournament team just once since Mike Anderson was hired to fix a program that fell into terrible shape under the watch of Stan Heath and John Pelphrey.