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Little Rock Trojans

Little Rock Trojans

The Little Rock Trojans are the athletic teams representing the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. The Trojans are a non-football member of the Ohio Valley Conference and a men's wrestling affiliate member of the Pac-12 Conference. The university offers 7 men's and 8 women's varsity sports. Little Rock's primary in-state rival is Arkansas State.

For the 2005–06 basketball season, the Trojans moved into the $25 million Jack Stephens Center. This new facility almost doubled the seating capacity of the old Little Rock gym, with 5,600 seats and 149,000 square feet (13,800 m) of space.

On July 1, 2015, the Trojans officially announced they would no longer be branded as "Arkansas–Little Rock" or "UALR," but will be the Little Rock Trojans effective immediately.

Starting in the 2022-23 athletic season the Trojans joined the Ohio Valley Conference as their primary athletic conference. Despite leaving the conference, Little Rock still has Sun Belt rivalries with many of the former West Division schools (Arkansas State, Louisiana–Monroe, Louisiana–Lafayette, Texas State, and UT Arlington).

Little Rock left the Ohio Valley Conference after the 2025–26 school year to join the United Athletic Conference beginning in the 2026–27 academic year, coinciding with the rebranding of the Western Athletic Conference under the UAC name. Little Rock joined the rebranded league as a non-football member. Because the United Athletic Conference does not sponsor women’s swimming and diving, Little Rock placed that program in the Atlantic Sun Conference (ASUN), which will maintain a formal partnership with the UAC following the 2026 reorganization. The Trojans will have a built-in rivalry in the UAC with Central Arkansas, also located in the Little Rock metropolitan area.