Scouting report for No. 4 Arizona's game at Stanford, including key players, UA assistant coach Riccardo Fois' take on the Cardinal and more.
F Azuolas Tubelis F Harrison Ingram How they match upThe series: Arizona swept three games vs. Stanford last season, but all of the games had some scary moments for the Wildcats. UA beat Stanford 85-57 on Jan. 20 at Maples Pavilion but lost forward Azuolas Tubelis to a severely sprained ankle that forced him to miss an ensuing game at Cal and be limited the following weeks.
This season: The Cardinal will not play the Wildcats at McKale Center this season because of the Pac-12’s unbalanced schedule. UA is scheduled to play nine Pac-12 teams twice but Stanford and Colorado only once. The Cardinal have similarly sized players in Ingram, Brandon Angel and Max Murrell, while the 7-1 Maxime Raynaud has taken over at center, especially after James Keefe went out with a lower leg injury last month. In the backcourt, Davidson grad transfer Michael Jones has started off the ball, while Michael O’Connell is in his third season as starting point guard.
“And even a guy like Raynaud as a five man can open up the floor and shoot to an extent. He can knock down a 3, has good hands and touch around the rim, got a lot more physical than he was last year. You can see one year of lifting and getting stronger and maturing. He's more comfortable, and they switch with him, every pick and roll.
If nothing else, Stanford can make its season considerably brighter by beating Arizona — and knows that it almost did exactly that last season. On Friday, at the end of a week when Tubelis picked up multiple player-of-the-week honors and was named a top-10 pick for the Karl Malone Award, center Oumar Ballo was named to a top-10 list for the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Award, given to the top center in college basketball.
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