Bear Down Wildcats

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Random question...with all the hotels that have been built around campus and downtown, would Tucson get back into the rotation for 1st or 2nd round games?

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Re: the Bileass post. Could someone explain how widening the lane affects the game? Let’s exclude free throw situation. During my regular game play it’s just arbitrary tape on floor. I guess 3 second call but those are pretty rare. The wider the lane, the more teams have to emphasize movement and s...

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Some really good commentary from Bilas. It's time to get serious about physical on-court play In the past couple of years, I have identified what I consider to be very real issues of physical play and uncalled illegal contact not only creeping back into the game but becoming embedded in the game. Pl...

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Jefe wrote: ↑Thu Mar 31, 2022 11:33 am Are these modern day fit or 97 fit? Large was more like today's medium 25 years ago

It's a modern standard length, so it's pretty close to your true size today.

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YoDeFoe wrote: ↑Thu Mar 31, 2022 9:57 am Holy shit the shorts sold out while I was adding them to my cart. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

They've done restocks on other popular items, so my guess is they'll do it again for these.

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Arizona gear is now live.

https://19nine.com/collections/arizona-wildcats

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Yes, yes he did.

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Imagine Tommy Lloyd’s seven-man rotation stocked with players from Arizona and New Mexico, and Lloyd being able to spend more offseason time developing his players on campus, and with his wife and three children, than to spend much of the summer recruiting in Europe, scrolling the transfer portal, ...

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Hansen figured out why Arizona isn't in the F4 - it's because we have too many foreigners and transfers on the team. He conveniently left out that Duke is one of the youngest teams in the country.

Just a complete word vomit.

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Still amazing we've gone to as many S16s as UCLA and one more than Gonzaga since 1997 and even more amazing we haven't been to a F4 in 21 years.

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19nine is dropping at 11am EDT on Thursday. Looks like we'll be getting the blue away ones and the home white / red. YESSSS.

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The Pit is new and it was a little confusing because not all the food trucks have the same hours. One positive is they have a shaded area and really good beers to purchase. The guy doing the BBQ has a lot of potential, just needs a little more help. Which BBQ truck is there? It's not really a truck...

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The NCAA is going to have to decide what it wants. Allowing teams that play great defense to play physical leads to closer games, but also less exciting ones. Allowing teams that play fast to move through the offensive zone without being grabbed, bumped, and held leads to more high scoring games, b...

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The first real final four in three years is going to potentially get Duke-North Carolina and Villanova-Kansas. Fucking gross, but could you imagine New Orleans if it was Arkansas, Houston, St. Peter's, and Miami? They might have widen the lane and changed the charge rule before next weekend.

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The Pit is new and it was a little confusing because not all the food trucks have the same hours. One positive is they have a shaded area and really good beers to purchase. The guy doing the BBQ has a lot of potential, just needs a little more help.

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As much as we all despise Bilas and his comments on more fouls need to be called, when you watch a game like this you know he is right. No flow at all and both teams just putting bodies on every drive, every cutter and every shot. No Rhythm at all It will turn into major league baseball and they’ll...

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This game is a terrible watch

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No team eclipsed 80 points in eight S16 games.

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Another thing to add to the fire with more time to reflect...this might have been one of the toughest years to have a really young team given the extra COVID year for a lot of these programs. Remy Martin has played 144 career games and Kerr and DT have played a combined 104. The lack of tournament e...

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I would say if freedom of movement emphasis isn't consistently applied three weeks in March, then pace is completely irrelevant. Houston arguably lost their two best players and are 40 minutes away from going back to the Final Four because their style works well in March. If the Suns lost Booker and...

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https://twitter.com/jasonscheer/status/1507386166567387139 Yeah, it's not like they've flamed out in the round of 32 each year. That USA Today article is 100% spot on about the premiere event of college basketball is won by teams that play at a deliberate pace, the games are officiated inconsistent...

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I went back to Sam Vecenie's mock draft last month and he had Koloko in the first round. I guess the big question is whether he takes another offseason to get stronger in his lower body and improve his post footwork, or does he expect to take that leap at the next level? I keep thinking back to him ...

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The scouting gets more dialed in once you start playing teams twice and I think the defensive drop off is correlated. Opponents dialed in on Kerr, Kier and Tubelis, which is why you saw a lot more of Koloko and Ballo on the floor together . We had elite 2pt% defense despite not creating a lot of tu...

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Upon further review, Mathurin, Koloko, Terry and Larsson all were over 100 in KenPom offensive rating last night. Kerr, Tueblis, Kier, and Ballo were a combined 3-for-21. Kerr and Tubelis were 1-15! Not to use the youth thing as an excuse, but Houston played guys last night who played in 11 combined...

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The scouting gets more dialed in once you start playing teams twice and I think the defensive drop off is correlated. Opponents dialed in on Kerr, Kier and Tubelis, which is why you saw a lot more of Koloko and Ballo on the floor together. We had elite 2pt% defense despite not creating a lot of turn...

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Duke took apart Texas Tech in the second half with dribble drives and shot 71%. Houston sped up our offense and made us think and work for passes instead of playing within the system. I thought Benn was great in the second half and Tommy helped get him good looks. Also, Villanova fans were ready to ...

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I just don't think I'll ever see a final 4 as a fan. It's been 20 years as a fan and nothing. Good regular season but this hurts and I just at this point don't think I'll ever see a final 4. If it doesn't happen with this team, how can it ever happen? Even if Krisa was healthy, we still would have ...

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Mathurin trying to do too much

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I think the warts we had against TCU showed up again tonight against a much better team. And we have to remember CTM hasn’t been in Tucson for a year with a team he largely inherited from Miller.

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Siempre Verde wrote: ↑Thu Mar 24, 2022 9:05 pm Since when is Pelle a PG?

When your staring PG has four fouls and played like total shit.

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Kerr has been KILLING them

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Not too far from my house and drove past this on my way to Saguaro Corners a few weeks ago, was wondering what it was going to be. Might check it out this weekend.

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UAEebs86 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 23, 2022 11:06 am

That is really interesting.

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97cats wrote: ↑Wed Mar 23, 2022 9:31 ammoving day.....

get yourself some la barbeque and juan in a million before you head south

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Not a good look for the Cats but look where the source is from. https://www.yahoo.com/news/arizona-basketball-players-slammed-postgame-145928364.html I'll put this as nicely as humanly possible: that's a bunch of candy ass bullshit by a bunch of people who enjoy their fake public sainthood while li...

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jajoyce wrote: ↑Tue Mar 22, 2022 4:11 pm Kerr’s foot completely wrapped. Is that normal or just for a plane ride?

My guess is they're trying to manage swelling after practice.

Also, surprised Benn wasn't taken out in handcuffs by Clay Travis.

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Love, love love being the underdog in this game. “Kerr Kriisa could have like 17 turnovers this game” —Rob Dauster Love love love. Rob Dauster: "Kerr Kriisa was the best player on TCU." Narrator: Arizona was +27 with Kerr Kriisa on the floor Rob's colleague Jeff Goodman had Illinois in the Final Fo...

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Can we get some throwback uniforms like I've seen from Michigan and Illinois? I would love to see them come out in the white and red uniforms on Thursday night, Houston would be dead on arrival.

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My apple watch was very concerned about my heart rate at about 8:50pm local time last night.

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Great call from Jeffries

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From the Athletic article.

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great breakdown, EVCat. Tommy chewed out the clock operator after that happened, not sure if others noticed. And on your second point, you damn well know Kelvin Sampson is going to put together a similar game plan to put pressure on the perimeter defense.

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What are Houston's strengths that are expected to give Arizona problems? Streaking at the right time? Size? They're a much more cohesive team and built a culture around toughness and rebounding, but they lack the go-to scoring option like TCU did last night. They're smaller than TCU and I expect Ar...

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Two things to note w/r/t Houston: 1 - they had a two point lead with eight minutes left and a four point with about six and half minutes left; 2 - they've lost three times since February 9

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1. I know CTL wanted to get Kerr back into the swing of things, but they made their run and TCU started to hunt him on defense, which negates the Ballo / Koloko tandem lineup. Lloyd needs to figure out how to manage Kerr's minutes in the second half of the game on Thursday because Houston will do t...

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A few thoughts on the game last night and going forward. 1. I know CTL wanted to get Kerr back into the swing of things, but they made their run and TCU started to hunt him on defense, which negates the Ballo / Koloko tandem lineup. Lloyd needs to figure out how to manage Kerr's minutes in the secon...

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Merkin wrote: ↑Sun Mar 20, 2022 12:24 pm He heard footsteps, he made the safe decision to not come down on someone.

The game changed a lot after this call.

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Based on today's action, I think playing on Friday is an advantage because the top seeded teams are playing with a purpose today.

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SabinoDrifter wrote: ↑Fri Mar 18, 2022 10:10 am Auburn has their hands full with Jacksonville State.

This post has aged poorly.

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Auburn has their hands full with Jacksonville State.

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