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UALR aims high, hosts No. 5 MSU

The UALR women's basketball team is accustomed to playing teams at the Jack Stephens Center who boast impressive resumes and national rankings.

In the past six years, UALR has hosted -- not just played, but welcomed onto its home floor -- Texas A&M when it was the defending national champions in 2011, LSU when it was ranked 13th on its way to reaching the Sweet 16 in 2013 and Texas, when it was ranked sixth before it advanced to the Elite Eight last year.

Today's challenge might dwarf all of those, though, if you ask Coach Joe Foley, who said that No.