Arizona basketball adds a preferred walk-on guard from Los Angeles
Sunday, April 15th, 2012The Arizona Wildcats basketball roster continues to change in the offseason, this time with the news Sunday that guard Jacob Hazzard will join the team as a preferred walk-on.
While Hazzard, from Los Angeles Loyola High School, won’t use UA’s last available scholarship for next season, he isn’t the usual walk-on practice fodder, either. The “preferred” part of the walk-on status is a signal that he was scouted and recruited by the school (as opposed to just showing up at a tryout) and could be in line for a scholarship down the road.
Hazzard was known as one of the top shooters in Southern California last season, averaging 12.3 points and making 80 of 197 3-point attempts (40.6 percent).
ESPN.com wrote that Hazzard, who visited the UA campus last week, had scholarship offers from some Division III schools.
