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Arizona Wildcats Basketball: Pac-12 champions escape physical Beavers
Arizona Wildcats Basketball: Pac-12 champions escape physical Beavers
Sean Miller called Oregon State the “most physical team we’ve played all season”.
Even though the Wildcats are already regular season Pac-12 champions, Wednesday night’s game at Oregon State proved to be a true test for Arizona before entering the tournament. While Arizona ultimately endured the Beavers...
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Wildcats, McConnell trying to avoid another court-storming moment
Facing two more potential court-stormings if they don’t win this weekend, the Arizona Wildcats have decided enough is enough.
Already having giddy opposing fans rush the court even before time ran out during two losses earlier this month, Arizona is now planning to ask the Pac-12 to consider a penalty for teams whose fans storm the court before the Wildcats have a chance to leave...
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18 days ago
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No. 2 Arizona gets past Oregon with big shots, big stops
TUCSON, Ariz. -- Arizona point guard T.J. McConnell hit two shots all night against Oregon -- one to start the second half and one in the final minute, a go-ahead 3-pointer that was his team's last basket of the game.
Everything in between wasn't all that pretty, but for the Wildcats, the final score looked good enough. Arizona survived a major scare from visiting Oregon...
Via Fox Sports Arizona
February 07, 2014
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Arizona Basketball: CAL/Oregon game previews
Arizona could afford to shoot 36% from the field when they held Stanford scoreless for almost nine minutes in the second half. A three pointer by Nick Johnson with 51 seconds remaining proved to be the difference in the game.
After squeezing out a 60-57 win Wednesday night in Palo Alto, the Wildcats inner conference play looks to ramp up with upcoming games against CAL and Oregon...
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February 01, 2014
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Arizona Basketball: The Fish that saved Tucson
At 10 years old, Miller appeared in a cameo for “The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh” starring NBA great Julius Erving. Miller was briefly shown dribbling three basketballs at an open tryout for the Pittsburgh Pythons.
The Pittsburgh Pythons clearly made a mistake when they passed up a 10-year-old Sean Miller, in the 1979 Cult Classic “The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh”. At an imposing...
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January 28, 2014
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Top-ranked Arizona Wildcats face tough second-half schedule
ArizonaWildcats.com Despite a slow start and a slim, 34-31 lead at halftime, top-ranked Arizona rolled to another victory on Sunday with a 73-53 win over USC in Pac-12 conference play, and now begin the second half of the regular season as the current kings of college basketball. Led by a season-high 19 points from both TJ McConnell and Brandon Ashley, Arizona flexed their muscles...
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January 14, 2014
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McConnell steps into scorer's role as Arizona reaches 17-0
LOS ANGELES -- Probably the last lesson a pure point guard learns is that unselfishness includes taking the open shots.
T.J. McConnell is getting there, and that just serves to make No. 1 Arizona all the more dangerous as it heads into the meat of the Pac-12 season and the NCAA tournament that is certain to follow.
McConnell had his season-high 19 points and tied a career high with...
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January 13, 2014
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McConnell, No. 2 Wildcats escape UNLV, 63-58
T.J. McConnell had 13 points, six assists and seven rebounds, making critical plays down the stretch, and No. 2 Arizona escaped with a 63-58 victory over UNLV on Saturday.
Brandon Ashley also had 13 points, and Nick Johnson and Kaleb Tarczewski added 12 apiece for the Wildcats. However, Johnson shot just 4 for 15.
Bryce DeJean-Jones scored 16 points, Khem Birch had 12 and Roscoe...
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December 07, 2013
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Arizona thrives with old-school McConnell at point
TUCSON, Ariz. -- Arizona point guard T.J. McConnell might not have written the book on being a point guard, but he's read it and now lives it. Actually, being the son of a basketball coach, he's lived it for a long time.
He realized long ago that it's not always about scoring points but assisting and instructing. It was dinner-table talk.
He must have passed the potatoes...
Via Fox Sports Arizona
November 13, 2013
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Overnight insight: Arizona basketball runs past Augustana
T.J. McConnell contributed three steals Monday night (Photo Credit: Arizona Athletics)
Arizona basketball unofficially opened their season monday night with an 84-52 exhibition victory over Augustana College. After looking sloppy in past years in early season exhibition contests, the Wildcats rode newcomer T.J. McConnell (12 pts, 8 ast, 3 stl, 0 TO) and returnees Nick Johnson...
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October 29, 2013
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