TROY (10-10, 5-3) at UALR (12-5, 5-1)
When: 7:05 p.m. (UALR women play Troy women at 4:30 p.m.)
Where: Jack Stephens Center (5,600)
TV: none
Radio: 103.7 KABZ-FM (Little Rock and surrounding areas)
Last Meeting: First meeting of 2009

KEEP EYES ON:

UALR

Shane Edwards, F, 6-7, 210, Sr.

No one is an outright star for the Trojans; that changes every night out. But Edwards has been huge in recent outings, including hitting the game-winning shot in UALR's 61-59 win at South Alabama on Thursday night. Edwards, who was up and down in his first year out of junior college in 2007-08, appears to be coming into his own for UALR in Sun Belt play this year.

Troy

Richard Delk, G, 6-4, 180 Jr.

The former Mississippi State swingman and nephew of Kentucky great Tony Delk is leading the Trojans in scoring at 13.9 points per game and has a team-leading 30.9 minutes per game. He's the only Trojan to start all 20 games this season. Delk is second on the team in rebounds at 5 per game.

IN PARTICULAR:

It's Trojans vs. Trojans in terms of mascots. Bad break for Ray Tucker and Bobby Vint, who will be doing the radio broadcast.

Troy did not win a road nonconference game in five trips. In all games, Troy is 2-7 on the road. Troy won at Louisiana-Monroe 71-70 last Saturday, following up a surprising 94-70 blowout of South Alabama two nights earlier. In their latest outing, the Trojans won at home against New Orleans 83-72 with Brandon Hazzard scoring 26 points and reserve Kenny Ware pulling in nine rebounds.

Troy as a team is being outrebounded on average more than 2 rebounds a game. No Trojan averages more than the 6.5 rebounds per game by senior center Tom Jervis, a native of Perth, Australia.

UALR is 8-2 at home this season. Three of UALR's five Sun Belt wins have been in overtime. Two other league wins have been decided by a total of seven points. UALR's only bad night in league play came in a 32-point blowout at Western Kentucky.

Mike Smith, UALR's starting center earlier in the season, remains suspended indefinitely.

PROBABLE STARTERS
Troy
G Richard Delk 6-4, 180 Jr. 13.9 ppg, 5.0 rpg
G Brandon Hazzard 6-2, 195 Jr.           13.7 ppg, 2.7 rpg
G Michael Vogler 6-1, 168 Jr. 9.8 ppg, 3.8 rpg
F Antywan Jones 6-6, 190 Jr. 4.5 ppg, 3.0 rpg
C Tom Jervis 7-0, 230 Sr. 6.6 ppg, 6.5 rpg

Key Subs: G Travis Lee (7.6 ppg, 1.6 rpg), F Mario Telfair (6.2 ppg, 3.5 rpg), F Kenny Ware (4.9 ppg, 3.9 rpg), G Regis Huddleston (7.4 ppg, 1.3 rpg)

Arkansas-Little Rock
G Lionel Foster 6-1, 200 2.0 ppg, 0.5 rpg
G Steven Moore 6-0, 176 13.6 ppg, 2.6 rpg
G/F John Fowler 6-4, 210 10.8 ppg, 5.8 rpg
F Shane Edwards 6-7, 212 10.8 ppg, 4.4 rpg
F Wayne Burton 6-8, 224 3.1 ppg, 2.8 rpg

Key Subs: F LaMarvon Jackson (1.4 ppg, 1.9 rpg), G Courtney Jackson (4.2 ppg, 2.5 rpg), F Brandon Patterson (5.4 ppg, 3.7 rpg), G Matt Mouzy (11.3 ppg, 2.2 rpg), F Derrick Bails (2.7 ppg, 3.1 rpg).

-Jim Harris, ArkansasSports360.com