JONESBORO -- Both teams need a victory.
Five games remain in the regular season. Arkansas State University and the University of Arkansas at Little Rock sit in a tie for eighth place in the Sun Belt Conference. Something has to give.
Arkansas' two Sun Belt clubs are in a three-way jam with South Alabama at 5-8. Any of the three can still be kicked out of the 10-team Sun Belt Tournament if the next five games go poorly.
The Sun Belt leaders, Texas State and Georgia State, aren't that far ahead at 10-4.