Kevin Parrom isn’t dealing with your typical injury.
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The cliché Arizona Wildcats fan response during the second half (Second quarter? Second play?) of a bad football loss is to ask, “When does basketball season start?”

Losing an exhibition game to a Division II team takes the punch out of that one.

As the hoops regular season begins tonight it appears Arizona Basketball is headed for a transition year. Not like the football team transitioning from one coach to another but transitioning from a peak season while waiting for the next rapidly approaching peak.

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Will the Cats be more welcoming than the rest of the Pac-12?
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Here come the new guys.

Over the next two weeks the Arizona Wildcats face both Utah and Colorado. With all three schools in the Pac-12 it’s going to be really awkward for New Mexico at the next Four Corners meeting.

For the Wildcats and Utes, the new guys are actually the old guys.

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The UA’s #8 is trying to become #1 in the Pac-12.
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It turns out Nick Foles might be better than we thought.

It is common knowledge among fans of the Arizona Wildcats that the strong-armed senior quarterback is rewriting the school’s record book. As the numbers have continued to pile up Foles is now in position to topple some Pac-12 marks as well.

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