Arizona basketball wasn’t clean and crisp(19 turnovers), but in the NCAA Basketball Tournament, the motto is “survive and advance”. Friday night the South region top-seed Wildcats opened their run to…
A Day at the Beach – Wildcats Open NCAA’s in San Diego with Easy Victory
The betting favorites in the NCAA Tournament are Gonzaga and Arizona. That’s not a misprint. It’s not a COVID year. It’s not an alternative universe. Two Western teams are the…
Our search for the winner of the NCAA Tournament began in the NBA, with first-round projections for the upcoming draft. You cannot survive March Madness without elite talent. From there,…
The Pac-12’s representatives in the NCAA Tournament — all three of them — have fairly distinct playing styles, roster makeups, and coaching philosophies. But Arizona, USC, and UCLA are quite…
Arizona hasn’t had too many close calls this season. Thursday’s 84-80 rock fight victory over Stanford may be a growing moment for Tommy Lloyd’s team. “We need those kind of…
What we learned on the final weekend of the regular season … 1. Oregon missed its chance As a classic NCAA Tournament bubble-sitter — a team with several premium wins…
The list of three-time winners of the Pac-12 men’s basketball Coach of the Year award runs six names deep: Lute Olson (Arizona), George Raveling (Washington State and USC), Mike Montgomery…
Pay no attention to the number of losses, the size of the losses or even the rat-a-tat nature of the losses. Oregon is headed for the NCAA Tournament, folks. The…
By Jeff Metcalfe Other than for Washington State, the opening weekend of conference play for Pac-12 women’s basketball was mostly one of delayed gratification. The Cougars played twice at home…
Conference play is scheduled to begin in earnest this week for Pac-12 basketball, but questions linger like it’s the winter of 2020-21: — How many teams will play all 20…