FAYETTEVILLE -- No. 10 seed Arkansas will face No. 3 Texas Tech on Thursday in a time to be determined at the Chase Center in San Francisco.

Arkansas (22-13) defeated No. 2 St. John's 75-66 on Saturday. Texas Tech (27-8) downed No. 11 Drake 77-64. In the win over Drake, Tech was topped by Darrion Williams with 28 points, six rebounds, five assists and two steals. JT Toppin added 25 points, 12 rebounds and a pair of blocks. Elijah Hawkins scored 16 points and dished out seven assists while also grabbing three rebounds.

Following the win over Drake, Texas Tech Coach Grant McCasland was asked about facing John Calipari and the Razorbacks on Thursday?

"I'm going to celebrate this one and celebrate our guys being here, and we'll talk about that," McCasland said. "We'll have plenty of time to celebrate that. We are excited to move on, and that's been our vision for this the whole time. One thing I do know, we'll have Red Raiders in San Francisco."

The Red Raiders are an early 5.5-point favorite over the Razorbacks. The only SEC opponent this season for Tech was Texas A&M on Sunday, Dec. 8. The Aggies topped Tech 72-67.

Toppin leads Tech this season with 18.1 points, 9.3 rebounds and 1.4 blocks per game. Hawkins tops the team in assists 6.5 and steals 1.6. Williams averages 14.7 points, 5.4 rebounds and 3.7 assists each game.

Following the win over Rick Pitino's St. John's squad Calipari was very complimentary of his opponent.

"You know, there are some games we played this year where the other team said that was a physical team and I told them and reminded them of that," Calipari said. "I know St. John's is physical, too. The second thing we talked about at halftime is first five minutes of this half, we got to get them to call a time-out and these kids came out and executed, got some rebounds. Now, I don't know of any team that I've coached in a while had 28 offensive -- I take that back. Tennessee did. They had 28 offensive rebounds and we still won, which is crazy.

"Rick did a great job with his team all year. If they made a few shots, they would probably beat us. We were fortunate to get out, but I'm proud of these guys and all of them here had to overcome stuff and they did. They did because they're good guys, they've been raised right and they knew they finally, not at the beginning of the year, that we absolutely need each other or we're going down together and they became one heartbeat. They figured out that if I worry more about the team and less about myself, man, I play better. It took time."

Arkansas and Texas Tech are old Southwest Conference rivals.