Arizona has been a bit of a disappointment this season so far by their standards, They are 7-5 coming in. They've beaten up the smaller schools on the schedule and lost vs. power programs. It's not been an extremely easy schedule for them though. Losses are @Wisconsin, Duke, Neutral court vs. Oklahoma and WVU, and vs. UCLA. The Wildcats opened conference play 1-0 after defeating TCU in Tucson this week.
The roster is interesting to me in that it's high level talent but there's not a single guy on their roster that UC was after in recruiting. They have twenty players including the walk-ons on the roster and seven of them are international players.
I'm glad that this game is a home game. I think the last time we played in Tucson years ago, we had the Miles Simon half court shot to beat us unless I'm misremembering the site of that game. I don't think Arizona has ever played at 5/3 before.
Arizona is deep. They have 10 guys averaging double digit minutes. They are tall. UA has three guys at 7'0 or taller and two of them see double figures minutes. They can run. They're averaging 85.9ppg as a team. Your guy to contain is Caleb Love as most of you probably knew already. Love was a transfer from UNC a couple of year ago.
I really don't think we want to get into a street ball run and gun game with these guys. We're going to have play some decent defense. In their losses, Arizona was held below 80 in every game except one. UCLA slowed them down to 54 in a close loss.
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