Arkansas Sports 360 - ArkansasSports360.com

Before last week's news broke, Arkansas' odds of winning the national championship this year were 15-to-1, good for eighth best odds in the country. One might think that losing a coach who was an insanely good 60-38-3 against the spread in his career (29-19-3 at Arkansas) would hurt Arkansas' chances. However, oddsmakers announced this week that Arkansas would remain at 15-to-1. read more >

Chance Cleveland's career-high 12 strikeouts against Troy helped him pick up a weekend victory for UALR. It landed Cleveland ahead of all Sun Belt Conference pitchers in strikeouts for the season. And it netted him the Sun Belt Conference Pitcher of the Week award. read more >

The UALR men's basketball team outscored Troy 18-6 in overtime to earn a 74-62 victory in the final game at Sartain Hall on Saturday night. UALR hit nine three pointers in the win and moved one step closer to locking up its fifth Sun Belt Conference Division championship in nine years under head coach Steve Shields. read more >

While the Red Wolves' offense took a while to get rolling, the opportunistic defense took control of the game with a 60-yard fumble return for a score by Darryl Feemster and a blocked punt recovery by Don Jones to stake ASU to a 17-0 lead. Troy never was closer than 10 points the rest of the way, as the ASU offense found a good mix of Ryan Aplin's scrambles and his pin-point accuracy on sideline routes to gain 283 yards in the second half while the defense clamped down on Troy, allowing just 98 total yards in the second half. Aplin connected on 25 of 37 passes for 356 yards and three touchdowns. Senior receiver Dwayne Frampton had 10 catches for 153 yards and a score, breaking the ASU record for career receptions. Besides a 30-yard scoring strike to Frampton, Aplin passed for a 10-yard touchdown to Taylor Stockemer and a 9-yard shovel pass to Rod Hall. read more >

An opportunistic Arkansas State defense staked the Red Wolves to a 17-0 lead, and junior quarterback Ryan Aplin and the ASU offense then put the game in cruise control with Aplin's running and passing in a 45-14 win over Troy on Saturday at ASU Stadium. read more >