Do you still feel the love?
(Tucson Citizen photo)
Saturday began with Sean Miller as the Arizona Wildcats’ head basketball coach. Saturday ended with the same guy in the same position.
All is well in the Wildcat Universe.
At least until next time.
Hoops hopes have been high since Sean Miller arrived in Tucson.
Photo by Renee Bracamonte/Tucson Citizen
It’s impossible to say the Arizona Wildcats basketball team did anything but overachieve in 2011. Sean Miller has the UA hoops program back on track and ahead of pace.
So where does that put Miller in terms of his biggest quest: Living up to the standard set by Lute Olson?
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The Arizona Wildcats were not able to reverse three historic trends Saturday night. The updated numbers read:
0-5 vs. UConn
0-3 in the Elite Eight in Anaheim
0-2 during Scott Terrell‘s adult-fan-life on his birthday
For some reason CBS didn’t have a graphic with that 3rd one.
You had to see it to believe what Derrick Williams did without seeing it.
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One-thousand-one…one-thousand-two…one-thousand-three…one-thousand-four…one-thousand–
That’s how quickly things can change in March.
One call, one hero, one (or two) no-calls, and one ticket to the Sweet 16 for the Arizona Wildcats.
Now things get a little more intense.
Photo by Nick Oza/The Arizona Republic
Four Pac-10 teams are in the NCAA tournament but one of them has to go to work early. Two other teams are in the NIT and a 7th Pac squad is in one of those tournaments that may or may not truly exist.
TWIT-Pac is hunting brackets.
