One team is coming off a school-record season, the other was the Sun Belt Conference's biggest surprise through the season's first two months.
But little separates UALR and Arkansas State as the teams meet tonight at the season's midway point.
Each led by first-year head coaches, the Trojans and Red Wolves have identical records -- 11-6 overall, 2-2 in the Sun Belt Conference -- have allowed the same amount of points (1,163) and the series record is deadlocked at 28-28 since they joined the league in 1991.
And when they meet at 6 p.m. in front of an expected crowd of almost 5,000 at the Jack Stephens Center, they'll be playing for the same thing -- a bounce-back victory after a tough road trip to the East Coast that could pull them from the middle of the standings.