Bear Down Wildcats

TheCat wrote: Tue Dec 31, 2024 2:32 pm Thought Caleb played one of his best games in an Arizona uniform. Team is still to dependent on one guy having a great night. Thought we should give him some love when it is do.

Merkin wrote: Thu Jan 02, 2025 2:33 pm Like someone said in the in-game thread, no 3 point shot attempts until Love makes a basket at the rim.

Alieberman wrote: Wed Jan 22, 2025 8:48 amLove is Love

EastCoastCat wrote: Wed Jan 22, 2025 8:04 am We need more of last night’s Caleb. But at the very least a little more consistency.

He’s such a hot or cold player.

PHXCATS wrote: Wed Jan 22, 2025 8:15 am Love is the difference between good year and really making a run in conference and in the tournament

Let him be. Let it play out

Love noted that he always is going to have confidence in himself to keep shooting, whether he's "1-for-10 or 10-for-10 ... you got to have confidence in yourself that the next one's going in."

pc in NM wrote: Tue Jan 28, 2025 8:16 am Caleb on the game-tying shot:"best moment of my life"

A bit surprising for a guy who's won a NC, MVP, etc...

And, for all the part-time Caleb Haters around here: Fuck You!!!

Love noted that he always is going to have confidence in himself to keep shooting, whether he's "1-for-10 or 10-for-10 ... you got to have confidence in yourself that the next one's going in."

The logic of a "shooter"!!

Awaka on his reaction to Love’s shot: “I was ecstatic, jumping up and down, running on to the court. Just a credit to our team and how we work, and how we stuck with it throughout the whole game. Props to Caleb as well. He’s a guy that goes through a lot. There’s a lot of pressure on his back. He goes to a lot of things mentally, too, that people might not see behind closed doors. So just seeing how he rose to the occasion, seeing how he’s been dealing with ups and downs this season, he’s one of the hardest workers I know. So just to see that ball go in for him, and then show up during overtime as well. It was just a blessing to see.”

AZCatGirl wrote: Sat Feb 01, 2025 1:24 pm Caleb is 100% going off on ASU when they come here next month. Fuck those assholes.

Irish27 wrote: Sat Feb 01, 2025 2:00 pm Love will have to sit out the BYU game.

AZCatGirl wrote: Sat Feb 01, 2025 2:42 pm Bobby is so fucking petty.

AZCatGirl wrote: Sun Feb 02, 2025 7:41 pm Just in case the ISU shot didn't make him PotW:

Winger wrote: Mon Feb 03, 2025 6:54 am

AZCatGirl wrote: Sun Feb 02, 2025 7:41 pm Just in case the ISU shot didn't make him PotW:

Will be interesting to see if the voters can get past what happened at the end of the ASU game and vote for Love. Feel like the old Pac may have tried to send a message by giving it to someone else.

TTech also had 2 good wins (TCU and @ Houston) and while Toppin was great vs the Frogs he couldn’t go vs UH([McMillian did have 2 pretty good games scoring 16 and 23 points). Think BYU was the only other team to go 2-0 (Baylor and @UCF) with Saunders going for 17 and 22.

Should be Love’s week/award and it doesn’t appear to me to be a very close call.

Arizona's Caleb Love was ejected at ASU because of Flagrant 2 foul, Big 12 clarifies

By Bruce Pascoe

Arizona's Caleb Love was ejected from Saturday's UA-ASU game because of a Flagrant 2 foul, the Big 12 clarified to the Star late Sunday afternoon.

Both Love and ASU's BJ Freeman were ejected with 30 seconds left in the Wildcats' 81-72 win on Saturday at Tempe after Freeman head-butted Love and a heated exchange followed.

Officials ruled over the public-address system that Freeman was ejected for a Flagrant 2 foul but said only that Love "was also ejected," leading to speculation that Love might have been tossed for picking up two technical fouls during his response. A Big 12 spokesman said Sunday that both Freeman and Love were assessed Flagrant 2 fouls.

While Love's response did not appear to include contact on Freeman, the NCAA's definition of a Flagrant 2 foul also includes "extreme unsporting conduct" without contact during a live or dead ball.

Saying the Wildcats won with "no class," ASU coach Bobby Hurley said Freeman's head-butting resulted from chatter from Arizona players.

"Words that were said back and forth led to the moment where Freeman lost it, lost his cool, because of the constant talk that was allowed to go on," Hurley said.

When told of Hurley's comments, Love said he didn't know anything about it and that the Wildcats always respected their opponents.

"It was just two competitors going at it," Love said. “It escalated and the refs made a call. ... We just compete. It was a great atmosphere, great game and we came out on top.”

UA coach Tommy Lloyd said after Saturday's game that he had not seen video of it yet, but that the incident was "disappointing, probably on all sides."

“We want to be a program that, when the tough things happen, we want to respond with class," Lloyd said. "I don’t know if we did or didn’t but it was just a tough moment in an emotional game.”