Post-game interviews are boring. The best reactions come after the microphones, Polo shirts and repetitive questions have all exited the locker room.

Tell us what you really think, Wildcats.

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Arizona’s Derrick Williams might have won the conference’s player of the year honors, but you get the feeling he’d trade it with Isaiah Thomas, the man he edged out for the award, in exchange for a PAC-10 tournament title. Thomas stuck a game-winning, buzzer-beater to down the Wildcats 77-75 on Saturday night in Los Angeles. Washington earns the conference’s automatic bid into the NCAA tourney. Arizona will find out its post-season fate on Sunday when the field of 65 is announced.

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WASHINGTON (23-10)   33   35   9   77

ARIZONA (27-7)   36   32   7   75  

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Arizona Wildcats guard Lamont Jones (12) is picked up by forward Derrick Williams (top) after a foul against the Washington Huskies during the 2011 PAC-10 basketball tournament championship game at the Staples Center. Kelvin Kuo-US PRESSWIRE

ARIZONA

PTS: Derrick Williams   24

REB: Derrick Williams   11

AST: Kevin Parrom   3

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WASHINGTON

PTS: Isaiah Thomas   28

REB: Darnell Gant   8

AST: Isaiah Thomas   7

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The (unofficial) Post-game Twitter Press Conference

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The Arizona Wildcats are honoring a self-imposed “no Twitter” pact this weekend. Good for their concentration. Bad for those who rely on their post-game Tweets.

Luckily for us, the players are the only ones in Wildcat Nation staying silent.

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FORMER AND NON-WILDCAT BASKETBALL PLAYERS

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“theres nothing you can do about a clutch player like that… gotta give it to U-DUB!! Great Game AZ… Yall boyz did that! ”

- Arizona defensive back Rob Golden (@RObGOlden)

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“I can’t even breathe this game is so intense!! #Arizona”

- Former Arizona softball star Taryne Mowatt (@tarynemowatt)

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“leggooooo ZONA!”

- Ex-Wildcat guard Nic Wise (@TheNicWise)

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“wow big basket got his @kemba15walker on”

- Arizona wide receiver Dan Buckner (@Buckner15), comparing Washington’s Isaiah Thomas’ game-winning shot to UConn’s Kemba Walker, whose buzzer-beater downed Pittsburgh days earlier

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“Overtime! We got this! Go CATS!!”

- Arizona mascot Wilbur Wildcat (@Wilbur_Wildcat)

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“We still ride AZ all day let’s take the big one.”

- Arizona defensive back Trevor Foster (@Jesus_Freak_365)

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UA TWITTER FANS AT #BEAR DOWN

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“Tell the team to #BearDown ”

- If John “Button” Salmon were alive today, this is what he would Tweet. Instead @Johnnybgoode will say it for the former Wildcat captain.

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Post-game interviews are boring. The best reactions come after the microphones, Polo shirts and repetitive questions have all exited the locker room.

Tell us what you really think, Wildcats.

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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 65, ARIZONA 57

Arizona Wildcats forward Jesse Perry (33) is fouled by Southern California Trojans forward Nikola Vucevic (back) during the first half at the Galen Center. Gary A. Vasquez-US PRESSWIRE

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Southern California’s Nikola Vucevic scored a game-high 25 points as the Trojans (16-12, 8-7 PAC-10) upset No. 10 Arizona (23-5, 12-3) by a 65-57 score in Los Angeles.  

The Wildcats, who finished the night with a combined two assists, saw their eight-game winning streak snapped. 

UCLA’s win over Arizona State on Thursday, cuts Arizona’s lead atop the PAC-10 to one game heading into Saturday’s showdown between the Wildcats and the Bruins.

SOUTHERN CAL     25     40     65

ARIZONA

28     29     57

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ARIZONA

PTS: Jesse Perry, 12

REB: Derrick Williams, 11

AST: Momo Jones & Kevin Parrom, 1

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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

PTS: Nikola Vucevic, 25

REB: Nikola Vucevic, 12

AST: Jio Fontan, 3

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The (unofficial) Post-game Twitter Press Conference

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“If this is what a bad game feels like.. I’m definitely not doing that again. Glad that bad game was now and not the tourney”

“They love you when you up.. Hate you when your down.. You can’t win everyone. One bad game can’t turn into two. Let’s get the next one”

“I’m not worried about haters.. They gunna be there no matter what.. Just have to control what I can control.”

- Arizona forward Derrick Williams (@DWillofuA23), whose eight points were well below his season average of 19.7 points per game

Derrick Williams and the Wildcats saw their eight-game win streak snapped in Los Angeles. Gary A. Vasquez U.S. Presswire

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“Aint lost in a minute..”

“On to the next one.. #YoullSee”

- Arizona guard Brendon Lavender (@BrendonLavender), who finished with one rebound on the evening

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“Back on that horse. Film and UCLA on Sat..”

- Wildcat guard Jamelle Horne (@Horne4u2), seven points and four boards

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“Big thought process.”

- Arizona guard Jordin Mayes (@Smeeesh)

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NON-HOOPS PLAYERS

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“Yea good gameRT @USCnumber19: @r0bg0lden we got yall today man… Its over now… Surprisingly great win”

- Arizona defensive back Rob Golden (@rObgOlden) bantering back and forth with USC wide receiver Brice Butler (@USCnumber19)

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“All I’m sayin is..we goin further in the tourney so u guys can celebrate for now lol”

- Arizona volleyball outside hitter Courtney Karst (@Courtyk23) with a message to the USC basketball team and their fans

Bear Down…and Blog!

Current and former University of Arizona athletes are always making news and not always in traditional mediums. We scoured the Internet and found Wildcats online by visiting these lynx

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TIGER WOODS, FURYK BOUNCED FROM ACCENTURE MATCH PLAY CHAMPIONSHIP

Former UofA golfer Jim Furyk gazes at his 2010 PGA Tour Player of the Year trophy. Furyk, who was eliminated in the first round of the Accenture Match Play Championships, has seen better days on the golf course. Luckily for him, it's a very long season. Allan Henry-US PRESSWIRE

A former University of Arizona golfer will not win this year’s World Golf Championship-Accenture Match Play Championship held in the backyard of their old stomping grounds.

Nor will any past PGA Tour ‘Player of the Year’ winners – of which ex-Wildcat Jim Furyk is both.

Furyk (2010 PGA POTY), Tiger Woods (2009 and eight other times) and Padraig Harrington (2008) were all eliminated in first round action on Wednesday in Marana, Ariz.-tournament that pits the top 64 World Golf money earners against one another in a March Madness-style tourney.

Furyk, the No. 10 seed, lost his opening round match to Ryan Palmer (2 up). Woods, No. 3, saw his comeback fall short in an extra hole to No. 62 Thomas Bjorn. Harrington, No. 30, lost to former Match Play champ Geoff Ogilvy.

The former Wildcats’ PGA Player of the Year title defense has gotten off to a sluggish start. Furyk has made the cut in only two of the four tournaments he’s played in, and finished in the top-25 once.

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While the top 64 World Golf money earners square off in the outskirts of Tucson, the balance of the PGA Tour is basking in the Mexican sun and sand traps at the Mayakoba Golf Classic at Riviera Maya-Cancun. That includes former Wildcats Robert Gamez, Ted Purdy and Rory Sabbatini.

“Sticks are finally thawing out for Cancun. I’m ready for some golf.”

- University of Arizona sports hall of famer Ted Purdy, via Twitter

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TWITTER

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 “business project number 2…. complete. aye nothing but basketball on my mind this week/weekend now!”

- That’s good news for Arizona forward Derrick Williams and bad news for Southern California and UCLA, the Wildcats’ opponents this week

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“Today my brother Austin would be 5 years old. Love n’ miss my lil angel. Happy Bday bro”

- Arizona guard Brendon Lavender reminding us all that life isn’t always about sports

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“life is so good right now. Ball is great. Got the best girlfriend in the world and az is back to where it was. Just wish my bro was here 2c”

- Lavender’s teammate Kevin Parrom doing the same

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“Not going to Lie, feels good to have the spikes back on!!”

- Former Wildcat golfer Ricky Barnes, who’s played in two PGA events so far this season

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“The car next to meat sonic is stuck”

- Arizona wide receiver Dan Buckner, accidentally splicing two words together with an appropriate Freudian slip

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“Just left foot locker northpark mall its official the REEBOK JET SHARK shoe is on the runway only 24 pair available”

- Better get your pair of the new Jason Terry (AKA the ‘Jet’) sneakers before someone else takes off with them

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“Please teach your children water safety and if you don’t know how to swim it’s never too late to learn!!!”

- When a former Wildcat swim star and Olympic medalist such as Amanda Beard gives you swimming advice, you’d best listen

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