However, during the six-year coaching tenure of Mike Newell, the Trojans made a big splash on the national stage.

Appearing in their first ever NCAA tournament game in 1986, the 14th seeded Little Rock beat the heavily favored and 3rd seeded Notre Dame Fighting Irish, coached by Digger Phelps, now a college basketball analyst for ESPN, 90 to 83.

In 1987, Little Rock beat Baylor, Stephen F. Austin and California to make it to the National Invitation Tournament finals in New York City.

With five tournament appearances out of six seasons in Little Rock, Newell departed after the 1990 season and the Trojans didn't return to post-season play until the 1996 NIT under coach Wimp Sanderson, the Trojans' most recent tournament game.

The women's team has also had its fair share of success since beginning play in 1969 and joining Division I in 1999.

Little Rock plays its home games in the Jack Stephens Center, an on-campus facility that seats 5,600.

Though the football program has long since been disbanded, the Trojans were a national powerhouse when the school was known as Little Rock Junior College.

The school received a $1.4 million pledge from Arkansas businessman Greg Hatcher, considered the father of Arkansas wrestling for helping the sport grow in a state that did not sanction high school wrestling before 2008.

In June 2018, Little Rock named former Oklahoma State wrestler and assistant Neil Erisman as their first head coach.