Arizona plays West Virginia at 9 a.m. Friday in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. The game will be televised by ESPN.
PJ Brown Arizona learned on Sunday that its opponent for the first round of the NCAA Tournament was West Virginia. The Wildcats also learned that they would be playing on Friday in College Park, Maryland.No. 7-seeded Arizona plays WVU at 9 a.m. Tucson time in the Greenville 1 bracket. The game will air on ESPN. Whoever comes out of this site will plays at Greenville, South Carolina, in the Sweet Sixteen — the same destination as No. 1 South Carolina.
If they were to beat No. 10 seed West Virginia Friday, the Wildcats would play the winner of No. 2 Maryland vs. No. 15 Holy Cross on Sunday. With UA finishing on a three-game losing streak — at Oregon and Oregon State to close out the regular season and vs. UCLA in the Pac-12 Tournament — its placement in the tournament dropped. The Wildcats went from possibly hosting in the second reveal a few weeks ago at No. 15 overall — as a 4-seed — to ending up a seventh seed.
People are also reading… Those loses also affected their spot in the final Associated Press poll that was released Monday. The Wildcats finished at No. 25. Five other Pac-12 teams were in the Top 25: Stanford , Utah , UCLA , Colorado and Washington State .The defending national champion Gamecocks became the third school to be the top team in the poll for the entire season in back-to-back years, equaling UConn and Louisiana Tech.
The Gamecocks, who are the No. 1 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament, have been atop the poll for 38 straight weeks, which is the second-longest run behind UConn's record 51-week streak . Contact sports reporter PJ Brown at [email protected]. On Twitter: @PJBrown09 Subscribe to stay connected to Tucson. A subscription helps you access more of the local stories that keep you connected to the community.
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