This summer, each member of the Arizona Daily Star sports team will assemble a list of the five most memorable Arizona Wildcats games they've covered since joining the beat. This week, Justin Spears will reflect on five football and men's…
Justin Spears This summer, each member of the Star sports team will assemble a list of the five most memorable Arizona games they’ve covered since joining the beat. This week, Justin Spears will reflect on five football and men’s basketball games:What went down: Third-seeded Arizona fell to No. 14 seed Buffalo 89-68 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on March 15, 2018, at Taco Bell Arena in Boise, Idaho.
But it was: A blur of easy Buffalo drives to the basket, and a storm of never-ending 3-pointers, 15 of 30 in fact, coming on top of a Bulls defense that tore apart the UA guards and contained the impact that star freshman big man Deandre Ayton could have inside. By the numbers: 11.1%, Arizona's 3-point percentage that night after shooting 2 for 18 from beyond the arc. It was Arizona's biggest upset loss in the NCAA Tournament since 1999, when No. 13 seed Oklahoma knocked off the fourth-seeded Wildcats in Milwaukee. The 2018 loss to Buffalo also marked the third straight season Arizona lost to a double-digit seed in the NCAA Tournament. The others: 11th-seeded Wichita State in 2016 and Xavier, also a No. 11 seed, the following season.
With the COVID-19 pandemic shutting down the 2020 season, and the Wildcats on a self-imposed postseason ban from their NCAA infractions case in '21, Arizona never made it back to the NCAA Tournament under Miller. Then Miller was fired after the '21 season and replaced by longtime Gonzaga assistant Tommy Lloyd, who is the winningest head coach in Division I history through his first two seasons with 61 victories.
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