LITTLE ROCK – Tenth-seeded Little Rock travels to New Orleans to face seventh-seeded Louisiana in the opening round of the Sun Belt Championship on Wednesday night. The Trojans and Ragin' Cajuns tip off at 5 p.m. from Lakefront Arena.
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All games at the Sun Belt Championship will be streamed live on ESPN3. Sunday's championship game will be televised on ESPN2.
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Sun Belt Championship ticket booklets are on sale now for $120 through the Little Rock Ticket Office. Contact
Casey Page at 501.565.8257 with questions or to make your purchase.
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Single-session tickets, which allow access to the two games listed in the session (except for the championship games), can be purchased for $15 each at the Lakefront Arena ticket office or on TicketMaster.com. Kids' tickets (ages 3-12) are also available for just $5 – which also includes a hot dog and soft drink. Children ages two and under are admitted free but must be accompanied by an adult.
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Sun Belt students are admitted free with valid school ID.
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Little Rock won back-to-back games against Georgia Southern (2/27) and South Alabama (3/2) before falling at Troy in the regular-season finale. The wins against GS and USA were the Trojans' first set of consecutive victories in conference play.
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Little Rock played its best three-game stretch of defense all season in the games. None of the teams scored more than 57 points. The Trojans' combined defensive field goal percentages over the three games were 37.2 percent overall and 32.8 percent from the 3-point line. Little Rock played to a +6.3 margin on the glass over the three games.
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Both wins were in come-from-behind fashion. Little Rock overcame a 12-point deficit to top Georgia Southern on Feb. 27 before coming from 15 down to beat South Alabama on March 2.
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Little Rock nearly closed the regular season with three straight wins for the first time since 2008-09, but fell 54-57 at Troy on Saturday, March 4.
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All three games were decided by 10 total points.
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Quick Hits
• The defending Sun Belt Tournament Champions, Little Rock enters the 2017 SBC Tournament having won two of its final three regular-season games.
• Little Rock nearly won three straight games to close the regular season for the first time since 2008-09, but fell 57-54 at Troy in the regular-season finale.
• Little Rock overcame double-digit deficits in its wins over Georgia Southern (2/27) and South Alabama (3/2) and led for a combined 1:11 in the two games.
• Over its final three regular-season games, Little Rock's defense held its opponents to 56.0 points per game, 37.2 percent shooting from the floor and 32.8 percent from 3-point range.
• Little Rock was 0-2 against Louisiana this season, most recently falling 88-82 at the Cajundome on Jan. 28.
• Little Rock is 23-23 all-time in Sun Belt Tournament play. The Trojans were 2-0 in the 2016 SBC Tournament and are 3-2 since the tournament moved to Lakefront Arena in 2014.
• Little Rock leads the Sun Belt Conference in free throw shooting percentage (.740) and is shooting a league-best 76.5 percent in conference games.
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