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Date: Today Time: 1 p.m. Tucson time Location: Olson Court, McKale Center (14,538) Radio: IMG College/Wildcat Radio Network (Brian Jeffries/Matt Muehlebach) [Sirius/XM: 92/190] TV: FSN (Steve Physioc/Marques Johnson) ESPN.com published a story on UA senior point guard Mark Lyons Wednesday. In the story, Dana O’Neil writes that Lyon’s divorce with Xavier occurred because he wanted to play point guard but his coach Chris Mack wanted him to continue to play the off-guard position. Mack wanted Lyons to stay at that position despite Tu Holloway exhausting his eligibility. Dee Davis, a sophomore, was pegged to replace Holloway instead. O’Neil writes that Mack and Lyons had confrontations in practice. She reports that one time Lyons was kicked out of practice because he refused to run as part of a punishment by Mack for his body language. “He’s a smart kid; he knows right from wrong,” UA coach Sean Miller, who recruited Lyons to Xaver, told O’Neil. “The thing that happens with him, he has a switch inside of him. The good part of the switch, the stakes are really high, the game is on the line and 15,000 people are watching and there is no one who has more confidence than he does. But when things aren’t going well for him personally, he lets that same confidence work against him and his teammates. It’s constant, talking to him about it.” Miller also told O’Neil that Lyons’ transition to point guard is similar to an offensive coordinator working with a running quarterback — “Part of the gift of a good offensive coordinator is to not try and make him something he isn’t, but give him things he can do and try to teach him some of the things he needs to get better at. That’s what we’re doing with Mark.”
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