FAYETTEVILLE — After learning some hard lessons on its first road trip this season, the Arkansas women’s basketball team will try to bounce back in a couple of less exotic locales.

Arkansas (5-1 ) plays at Memphis (5-2 ) at 7 Central tonight, then plays in a fourteam tournament at Kansas State on Friday and Saturday. The Razorbacks hope to have a sharper focus than they did in the first half of last week’s loss to Oregon State at a holiday event in the Bahamas.

“You’re having Thanksgiving banquets, you’re sitting on the beach, and then all of a sudden there’s a game,” Coach Tom Collen said. “Maybe we lost a little bit of focus, because clearly it was the first 20 minutes that cost us.

“ I think we learned that we can’t afford to get off to a bad start.”

Arkansas also seems to have settled on its identity after tinkering with a traditional starting lineup that featured 6-3 transfer Ashley McCray at center for the first three games. Since then, Collen has opted to go with a three-guard lineup that allows the Razorbacks to push tempo with a variety of traps and presses.

After the sluggish start last week, though, Collen said the Razorbacks should recognize a need for more offensive consistency from the get-go.

“I think we also confirmed what we know and have always known, and that is if we don’t score we can’t press,” Collen said. “Right now, our press is what leads to the pace we want to play at, and we’ve got to find a way to score.”

Freshman guards Ceira Ricketts (13. 5 points per game ) and Lyndsay Harris (11. 0 ) lead Arkansas, followed by seniors Ayana Brereton (10. 5 ) and Whitney Jones (9. 7 ). The Razorbacks are shooting just 39. 1 percent from the field as a team, however, including 31. 2 percent from three-point range.

Improving those numbers away from home doesn’t figure to be easy, and with no more road games until January, Collen said Arkansas needs to make the most of this week’s trips.

Tonight’s game will be played at the FedEx Forum, home of the NBA’s Memphis Grizzlies, but Collen said the Tigers still should enjoy some measure of a homecourt advantage.

If Arkansas defeats Mississippi Valley State on Friday, it likely will get its toughest test to date against Kansas State on Saturday. The Wildcats (5-0 ) play Alcorn State (0-6 ) in Friday’s other first-round game and averaged more than 4, 300 fans per home game last season.

Collen said any success on the road, whether it’s at Memphis or Kansas State, must start with the proper mind-set.

“I’ve always preached that when you play a team on their home floor, you have to bring 10 to 20 percent more energy in order to make up the difference,” Collen said. “That team likely is going to have a homecourt advantage because of their crowd, they’re likely going to shoot the ball better on their home rims, so you’ve got to make that up somewhere else, and I think it’s got to be with energy.

“ I think our chance at victory is going in there and pressing harder and pressing as well as we’ve ever pressed all season long.”

That will take a keener focus, as the Razorbacks learned last week.

“Our bodies are probably going to be tired because we’re playing a lot of games within a short amount of time, so we’ve just got to stay mentally focused,” Jones said. “I think that’s the big deal.”