Arizona Basketball 2024-2025 - Welcome to the Big-12

[Ronin]

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[Ronin]

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[Ronin]

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[Carolinacacti]

Love gives and takes

 

[Ouchie-Z-Clown]

Wow this was embarrassing

 

[Ronin]

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[TJ]

Gonna be a lot of recruits in attendance for the Duke game. LeBron's kid will be there and maybe LeBron

 

[Ronin]

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[GatorAZ]

Gonna be a lot of recruits in attendance for the Duke game. LeBron's kid will be there and maybe LeBron

Great time for Arizona to lay an egg on a big stage.

 

[Russ Smith]

Great time for Arizona to lay an egg on a big stage.

Just saw highlights, I really want to not like Cooper Flagg, Duke, so hyped etc, but man that kid is good.

 

[TJ]

Great time for Arizona to lay an egg on a big stage.

It’s pathetic. Arizona looks outmatched against any team from a P4 conference. I didn’t expect us to win tonight, but I expected us to at least have a puncher’s chance at the end. I don’t know if the team hasn’t gelled yet or if this is Tommy’s worst team in his career, but the returns are awful.

The Bahamas trip will be very telling. Tommy better hope that Gonzaga isn’t in the way.

 

[Ouchie-Z-Clown]

Quick answer: there are no sissies on this team and we can go 10 deep if Veesaar can continue to play as well as he has in preseason

Well this doesn’t seem to be accurate thus far. What a disappointment this team is.

 

[TJ]

Well this doesn’t seem to be accurate thus far. What a disappointment this team is.

Correct. This team looks putrid

 

[AzStevenCal]

Correct. This team looks putrid

I don't think they've played well at all this year despite the ranking so I hope this isn't who they really are. At best they've looked like one of those teams that's on the outside looking in come Selection Sunday.

 

[TJ]

I don't think they've played well at all this year despite the ranking so I hope this isn't who they really are. At best they've looked like one of those teams that's on the outside looking in come Selection Sunday.

I won’t go that far. Caleb Love isn’t going to look awful for the whole season, and I think Carter Bryant is gonna play his way into the OAD category once he gets more experience and minutes. Although at this point, I think getting a seed better than 4 seems insurmountable.

 

[AzStevenCal]

I won’t go that far. Caleb Love isn’t going to look awful for the whole season, and I think Carter Bryant is gonna play his way into the OAD category once he gets more experience and minutes. Although at this point, I think getting a seed better than 4 seems insurmountable.

I'm not writing them off yet but wow, even a number 4 seed is far more than I can envision. I expected Duke to win even in Tucson but after the embarrassing performance at Wisconsin I was really hoping for at least a close battle in front of home fans.

 

[TJ]

I'm not writing them off yet but wow, even a number 4 seed is far more than I can envision. I expected Duke to win even in Tucson but after the embarrassing performance at Wisconsin I was really hoping for at least a close battle in front of home fans.

Arizona is going to have one of the strongest SOS when it comes to selecting for the tournament:

@ Wisconsin
Duke
One of Gonzaga or Indiana (neutral)
*maybe* Oklahoma
UCLA (neutral)
The Big-12 gauntlet

That alone is going to benefit Arizona greatly, and we’ve seen double digit loss teams get preferential treatment when their SOS is insane.

Of course, Arizona has to perform in these games and figure itself out between now and then. Tommy is a good coach and deserves the benefit of the doubt that he will get this team to gel.