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Trojans warming to Walker's ways

Thomas Metthe

The reconstruction project is moving right along.

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock has no seniors on its 2018-19 men's basketball coach. Darrell Walker, who was announced as the school's 23rd coach in March after taking over for a fired Wes Flanigan, has had seven months to begin a comprehensive tear-down and renovation of a Little Rock program that went 7-25 last season.

The Sun Belt Conference announced the men's basketball preseason poll Thursday where the league's coaches voted the Trojans 12th out of 12 teams. Dead last.

"We're going to shock a lot of people," said redshirt junior guard Deondre Burns.