The No. 13 Gymbacks will have their first-ever conference competition with Oklahoma this week, and it comes as the Sooners are ranked the top team in the nation.

A field of 13 teams, seven ranked in the top 25 nationally, are scheduled to compete in the Razorback Invitational on Friday and Saturday inside Randal Tyson Track Center.

Arkansas hasn't gotten off to a hot start in SEC play with a 1-6 record, but Thiero has had an incredible season. The former Wildcat is averaging 16.1 points per game to lead the

Arkansas senior first baseman Bri Ellis and junior utility player Kailey Wyckoff were voted to the 24-player preseason All-SEC team. Texas and Florida had five players on the list, and LSU, Oklahoma and Texas A&M each had three.

As Arkansas basketball's John Calipari comes back to Kentucky, Rick Pitino has a message.

The Razorbacks lost their freshman phenom Boogie Fland for the season, which is a massive blow as he was the team's best offensive weapon. Fland was committed to Kentucky before Coach Calipari made the move to Arkansas.

An event to watch closely Saturday is the men’s mile that will include Arkansas runners Reuben Reina and Yaseen Abdalla, a Tennessee transfer. Reina tied the Razorbacks’ program record with a mile time of 3 minutes, 55.40 seconds at the Arkansas Invitational. Abdalla broke program records in the 3,000 and 5,000 last month in Boston.

John Calipari wants his Arkansas basketball players who transferred from Kentucky to stay 'calm in the storm' inside Rupp Arena this weekend.

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — It must be confusing to be an Arkansas fan during Kentucky week this year.

Lineup and Rotation Preview: The book is out on Arkansas. With most of the position battles won, Arkansas fielded most of its starters on the same team. The team with the starters (gray) won the first two games of the series, before the secondary team (cardinal) won Sunday's game. See attached box score for the breakdown of the lineups.

Adou Thiero, who followed Calipari from Kentucky to Arkansas, had five points in the final minute to end the team's five-game losing skid.

Arkansas hosts the Texas A&M Aggies after Izzy Higginbottom scored 32 points in Arkansas' 89-69 loss to the Kentucky Wildcats.