It’s good to have options. But might there be one option that stands above the rest? When it comes to the quarterback at the University of Arizona, the answer is no. Six different signal callers lined up center during the spring game last month. Redshirt sophomore Connor Brewer recorded the most completions (eight), redshirt freshman […]
Aaron Gordon has played his last game as an Arizona Wildcat, as the forward announced Tuesday he will forgo his three remaining seasons of NCAA eligibility to enter June’s NBA draft. Gordon is a projected first-round pick. “Aaron has so many gifts as a player,” Arizona head coach Sean Miller said in a press conference […]
Kaleb Tarczewski will return to the University of Arizona for his junior year. The 7-footer decided to remain a Wildcat, electing not to declare himself eligible for the NBA Draft. Tarczewski put up 9.9 points and 6.3 rebounds per game last season. In Arizona’s 33-5 campaign, Tarczewski made strides from his freshman season, scoring three […]
Rondae Hollis-Jefferson will remain an Arizona Wildcat for at least one more year. The 6-foot-7 freshman decided to stay at Arizona after considering forgoing his remaining NCAA eligibility and entering the NBA Draft. The 19-year-old averaged 9.1 points and 5.7 rebounds a game last season during Arizona’s 33-5 campaign. Hollis-Jefferson played in every game for […]
Arizona Wildcats guard Nick Johnson will forgo his final season of eligibility and enter the NBA Draft, the junior announced Tuesday. “It’s been a great experience at Arizona,” he said at a press conference. “I’ve chosen to put my name in this year’s draft.” Johnson led the Wildcats in scoring as a junior with 16.3 […]
The Arizona Wildcats went into their spring game without a starting quarterback, and they left it the same way. But maybe they’re a little closer to finding one. In front of an announced crowd of 7,100 at Arizona Stadium, the offense came out ahead by a score of 57-38. Redshirt freshman Anu Solomon led UA’s […]
Arizona’s Nick Johnson has one year left of eligibility and a decision to make. If he remains in school, the Wildcats would most likely be a preseason favorite heading into next year. If he declares for the draft, Johnson would join the majority of his fellow Wooden Award finalists in moving to the NBA. In […]
If you’re on the University of Arizona campus Saturday afternoon for the annual Spring Game, you’ll potentially have the chance to win some serious cash prizes during the football scrimmage. The football program will award one lucky fan $500 from a pool of 10 contestants, if he or she is able to split the uprights […]
Making a top 10 list for a heartbreaking loss is not quite an honor. However, when creating such a list for the most memorable games of the 2014 NCAA Tournament, it was hard for CBSSports.com to ignore the brilliant West Regional final played between the Arizona Wildcats and Wisconsin Badgers back on March 29. In […]
Pretty much from the moment Nick Johnson failed to get a shot off at the end of Arizona’s 64-53 Elite 8 loss to Wisconsin, attention turned to next season. That’s what happens when your current season ends. For the Wildcats, 2014-15 really can’t come soon enough. While there will be some departures from the team […]
The last coach not named Sean Miller to take the Arizona Wildcats to the NCAA Tournament’s second weekend is Russ Pennell. Pennell guided the Wildcats during the 2008-09 season — the one prior to Miller’s arrival — as the interim coach following Lute Olson’s abrupt retirement. That season the Wildcats won a total of 21 […]
Arizona’s 64-63 loss to Wisconsin Saturday night made some Wildcats fans sad. It apparently also made some angry. Very angry. Shortly after the game ended, reports of unrest on the school’s campus began to trickle in. UPDATE (Sunday 8:00 a.m. MST): According to KVOA.com, 15 arrests were made in total. Of the 15, all were […]
NCAA regional finals rarely if ever live up to the hype that occurs when the two top-seeded teams face each other. Saturday evening’s Elite Eight contest between the Arizona Wildcats and Wisconsin Badgers did just that and then some. In fact, it was a shame one team had to lose. In the end, though, it […]
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) appears to have found a new head coach, ESPN’s Jeff Goodman said in a tweet Friday. Goodman reported the university’s athletic director, Michael Moore, has reached a verbal agreement with Memphis assistant Jason Gardner to fill IUPUI’s vacant head coaching position. Gardner is a former point guard for the University […]
So this is it. Win this game, and you go down in your school’s history as one of the better teams it has ever assembled. Lose it and you are just another good team. Arizona will battle Wisconsin in an Elite 8 matchup, with the winner going to the Final Four. The Wildcats have been […]
When they take the court at the Honda Center Saturday evening against the Wisconsin Badgers, the Arizona Wildcats could be 40 minutes of basketball away from their first Final Four appearance since 2001. That season, they lost to Duke by a score of 82-72 in the national championship game. And while the Wildcats have had […]
The Western Region’s No. 1 seeded Arizona Wildcats got a run for their money Thursday night in a Sweet 16 showdown with No. 4 San Diego State. The Aztecs lead for a majority of the evening and held Arizona to 28 first-half points. However, the Wildcats were able to turn it on late, even after […]
When the Arizona Wildcats take the floor for their Sweet 16 matchup Thursday, they’ll be doing so against a familiar foe. The top-seeded Wildcats played San Diego State in each of the last two seasons, with the Wildcats winning both — including a 69-60 contest in San Diego earlier this season on Nov. 14 after […]
The Arizona Wildcats are among the 16 teams left in the NCAA Tournament, and are one of three No. 1 seeds playing a fourth-seeded team in the Sweet Sixteen. Standing in their way of a trip to the Elite Eight are the San Diego State Aztecs. “These are two very similar built teams with good […]
We’ve all made a mistake at our job. For some of us, it’s sending an email to the wrong person. For others, it’s constantly confusing the University of Arizona with Arizona State. And then, for a select few, it’s pressing the button to sell commemorative T-shirts to a round of the NCAA Tournament that your […]
It was no surprise that Arizona was named a no. 1 seed in the West region of the NCAA Tournament on Selection Sunday. Now with only 16 teams left, ESPN.com college basketball writer Myron Medcalf has re-seeded the field and says that the Wildcats are deserving of the top overall seed, based on their first […]
On March 24, 2011, Derrick Williams arrived on the national scene. The Arizona sophomore exploded against the Duke Blue Devils for 32 points and 13 rebounds in a Sweet 16 game, propelling the Wildcats to the Elite 8 and the forward into the conversation as one of the top picks in the upcoming NBA Draft. […]
Sean Miller had his guys ready to play. And when you have great talent tapped into the rage tree, that is prepared to execute your plan, you’ve got something that is capable of winning National Championships. And the Wildcats looked scary against Gonzaga. They destroyed Gonzaga in the first half and not only played with […]
Somebody needs to press the Staples “Easy” button. The Arizona Wildcats came into Viejas Arena in San Diego facing a competitive eighth-seeded Gonzaga Bulldogs on Sunday evening, but the No. 1 seed dominated basically from the get-go, rolling to an 84-61 decision and into the Sweet 16. Arizona built a lead as big as 21 […]
The Arizona Wildcats will renew a bit of a rivalry Sunday when they take on the Gonzaga Bulldogs Sunday in the third round of the NCAA Tournament. Arizona, a one seed, got to this point by knocking off No. 16 Weber State 68-59 Friday, whereas Gonzaga, an eighth seed, beat No. 9 Oklahoma State 85-77. […]
When the Arizona Wildcats take the court against the Gonzaga Bulldogs on Sunday evening in San Diego, prepare to hear a plethora of references to their meeting over a decade ago, in the second round of the 2003 NCAA men’s basketball tournament. Arizona, a No. 1 seed in 2003, outlasted ninth-seeded Gonzaga in a 96-95 […]
The Arizona Wildcats advanced to the third round of the NCAA Tournament with a 68-59 win over the Weber State Wildcats, though they did not exactly do so in a convincing manner. Nick Johnson led Arizona, which was up by as many as 21 in the second half, with 18 points, and now the Wildcats […]
It will be a battle of Wildcats Friday in San Diego as Arizona takes on Weber State in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. However, the mascot is about the only thing the schools have in common. Arizona enters the matchup as a No. 1 seed for the sixth time in school history after […]
It looks like President Barack Obama is a fan of the Arizona Wildcats, at least to a point. As part of his annual bracket, the Bracketer in Chief has a Final Four of Florida, Michigan State, Arizona and Louisville. However, he has the Cardinals knocking off the Wildcats before falling to the Spartans in the […]
The Arizona Wildcats accomplished nearly everything they could have in the regular season. They got off to the best start in school history (21-0), beat every team in the conference at least once (they split with California, Arizona State and Oregon), spent eight weeks as the nation’s top-ranked team and won the Pac-12 Conference’s regular-season […]
