FAYETTEVILLE — The University of Arkansas is expanding its policy of playing in-state universities in sports to include Arkansas State University and the University of Central Arkansas.
The Razorbacks will play UCA in a volleyball tournament in Conway this fall, Arkansas Athletic Director Hunter Yurachek said Friday, and the Bears' track and field teams will compete at the UA in indoor and outdoor meets in 2021.
Yurachek said he has told Arkansas’ head coaches they are free to schedule UCA and ASU in all sports, other than football.
Arkansas ended a long-standing policy of not scheduling in-state schools when the Razorbacks played the University of Little Rock and University of Arkansas-Pine Bluff — sister institutions in the UA system — in some sports in 2019.