RAZORBACKS keep glass clean in victory.

FAYETTEVILLE — While the University of Arkansas struggled with its jump shooting for stretches of the first half, the Razorbacks made up for it with strong offensive rebounding during their 86-66 victory over UNC-Charlotte on Tuesday night.

Arkansas actually dominated the glass on both ends, coming out with a 41-21 rebound advantage.

But their first-half work on the glass was game-changing. For the game, Razorbacks corralled 15 offensive rebounds and converted them into 18 second-chance points while shooting 53.1% from the floor. Arkansas overcame a stretch of 2-of-11 shooting in the opening half with a 7 of 9 spurt later in the half.

“I thought our rebounding tonight, especially in the first half, was so dominant,” Arkansas Coach Eric Musselman said.

The offensive board work was stronger in the first half, when five players combined to snare 11 offensive rebounds and turn them into 14 points.

Arkansas led in offensive rebounding 11-0 at one point in the first half.

“Offensive rebounding and defensive rebounding is always a focus for us, and we knew coming into this game we could do that and get a lot of offensive boards and create second-chance opportunities,” Arkansas forward Jaylin Williams said on the Razorback Sports Network.

Au’Diese Toney led the way with 3 offensive rebounds in the opening 20 minutes, followed by 2 each from Davonte Davis and Williams. Connor Vanover and Trey Wade each had one offensive board in the opening half.

The 49ers did a much better job of keeping the Razorbacks from attacking the offensive glass in the second half, when Stanley Umude added two rebounds on that end and the Razorbacks just had four.