The Arkansas women’s basketball team will open play in the Women’s National Invitational Tournament against Louisiana Tech on Thursday at 7 p.m. inside Bud Walton Arena.
Arkansas (21-12) was an automatic qualifier for the tournament as the SEC’s highest-finishing team left out of the NCAA Tournament. The full WNIT bracket was released Monday and also includes Auburn, Florida and Missouri from the SEC.
It will be the Razorbacks’ eighth time competing in the WNIT, most recently doing so in 2019. Arkansas won the event in 1999, capped with a victory over Wisconsin in front of a crowd of 14,161 people inside Bud Walton Arena.
The attendance figure is a program record.
The Razorbacks have faced Louisiana Tech three times before. The Lady Techsters have won each meeting, with the most recent meeting coming in November 1983.
When the Razorbacks made their lone NCAA Final Four appearance in 1998, Louisiana Tech finished as national runner-up.
The Lady Techsters (19-12) finished fifth in Conference USA this season.