When Arizona was one of the last teams – if not the last – to make it into the NCAA men’s basketball tournament, there were no shortage of naysayers who said the Wildcats didn’t belong.
The naysayers have gone silent.
The Wildcats won their first two games of the tournament to advance to this weekend’s Sweet Sixteen.
For those who follow UA basketball, no reminder is needed of the season’s travails. For those who don’t follow the Cats, there isn’t enough space here to go through it all.
At this point, all that matters is that UA is one of just 16 men’s college basketball teams still playing. And that is a mighty impressive accomplishment.