Arizona vs Arkansas Sweet 16 rematch brings history and new questions
Love drama? Arizona and Arkansas meet in the Sweet 16 with old postseason scars, star freshmen and Tommy Lloyd vs John Calipari.
The race to an NCAA championship continues on March 26 with several teams tipping off in the Sweet 16 . Tommy Lloyd's Arizona Wildcats (34-2) will square off against the Arkansas Razorbacks (28-8) at 6:45 p. m.
at the SAP Center in San Jose, California. It will mark the 22nd appearance in the Sweet 16 for Arizona, which has advanced to this round in four of Lloyd's five seasons. He is the third coach in NCAA history to make the Sweet 16 in four of his first five seasons as head coach, joining Steve Lavin, who did so at UCLA, and Steve Fisher, who accomplished that at Michigan.
Arkansas leads the all-time series with Arizona, 6-2, but the Wildcats won the most recent meeting in 1995. The Razorbacks beat Arizona twice in the postseason — in the 1994 Final Four and in the 1949 district playoff. Let's take a closer look at the matchup.
How they got there Arizona, which won both the Big 12 regular season title and the tournament title, advanced with a 92-58 first-round win over Long Island University and a 78-66 victory over Utah State. Arkansas defeated Hawaii 97-78 and High Point 94-88. The Razorbacks finished tied for second in the SEC in the regular season with Alabama and behind Florida.
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