When two Power 4 basketball programs with the same record and similar pedigrees square off at a neutral site, the assumption is almost always that the ranked team would be favored over its unranked opponent.

Arkansas basketball takes its show on the road on Thanksgiving to face Illinois. Here's a scouting report and prediction for Hogs-Illini.

Illinois is a 2.5-point favorite, according to FanDuel. • The Razorbacks are ranked No. 19 by The Associated Press. The Fighting Illini are not ranked but are receiving votes. • Arkansas enters after beating Maryland-Eastern Shore 109-35 on Monday, while Illinois beat Little Rock 92-34.

Even if Illinois wasn't expected to be at much risk against Little Rock on Monday at the State Farm Center in Champaign, the Illini made the matchup look like a Globetrotters-style exhibition or some sort of scheduling mixup in a 92-34 pounding.

Arkansas will take center stage on the national basketball landscape when the #19/21 Razorbacks face Illinois in the Thanksgiving Classic, played at Kansas City’s T-Mobile Center on Thursday (Nov. 28).