Duke’s next opponent is Central Arkansas and that’s a fairly obscure opponent to most ACC fans. So before we do our UCA preview, we thought we’d talk about about the program, the school and town.
First you can get there by heading west on I-40. Straight shot but it’ll take 13 hours.
The program has produced one basketball immortal: Scottie Pippen went there before he went on to achieve greatness with the Chicago Bulls. Former Arkansas triplet legend Marvin Delph was born there as well.
UCA competes in the Southland Conference which is a good ways downstream from the ACC.