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Notebook: Washington State at Arizona Wildcats

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— The last time Washington State played at McKale Center on Jan. 2, 2014, and the Wildcats won by a score of 60-25. The Wildcats will probably surpass that combined score total of 85 points tonight. The 25 points by the Cougars were a record low amount of points scored at McKale. The previous low was 37 by NAU in 1989. Washington State was in its last season with former coach Ken Bone and the Wildcats were ranked No. 1. Quite a few Cougars remain from that game including senior forward John Longrus, junior guard Que Johnson, senior forward Brett Boese, junior forward Josh Hawkinson and junior guard Ike Iroegbu. Those five players scored a combined 13 points against the Wildcats. They now average a combined 45.1 points a game, led by All-Pac-12 candidates Hawkinson and Iroegbu. …

— Iroegbu, a Sacramento product who played at Oak Hill Academy, is averaging 14.8 points and is shooting 54.8 percent (23 of 42) from three-point range. Hawkinson, who played only seven minutes at McKale a couple of years ago as a skinny freshman reserve, has turned into a beast at 6’10” and 235 pounds. He has an incredible 13 double-doubles (points and rebounds), including that achievement in the last 11 games. He is averaging Ryan Anderson-esque 17.1 points and 11.4 rebounds a game. …

— Speaking of double-doubles, from the Arizona media relations department: Kaleb Tarczewski has posted a double-double in his last three games. This comes after Ryan Anderson’s streak of five consecutive double-doubles to give Arizona eight consecutive games of at least one double-double recorded. No Arizona team has produced eight straight games with at least one double-double since joining what was the Pac-10 prior to the 1978-79 season. … My guess is the frontcourt tandem of Bob Elliott and Al Fleming in the 1970’s could have produced double-doubles all season. Tarczewski-Anderson belong in the same sentence with Elliott and Fleming with the way each has played in their double-double streak. …

— This is from the bet-you-didn’t-know category: Arizona achieved its 1,700th win in its program’s history with the victory over Washington on Thursday. The overall record of the Wildcats is 1,700-900. Since Lute Olson was hired in 1983, the program has achieved 766 victories (589 by Olson and 177 by Sean Miller). That equates to 45.1 percent of the program’s overall victories in a 32-year span. In the 77 years prior, the Wildcats won only 54.9 percent of their games. …

— Miller’s overall record is 297-102 in 12 years as a head coach at Xavier and Arizona. While he is only three victories from the 300-win milestone, Tarczewski is seeking his 100th win tonight in which he logged minutes with the Wildcats. Tarczewski is only 10 wins shy of Matt Muehlebach’s school record of 109 victories from 1987-91. Washington State is on alert: Tarczewski has made 81 percent of his field goal attempts in four games against the Cougars. …

— Do you think former ASU football player Terrell Suggs has texted his cousin Renard Suggs, a junior guard at Washington State, about how much he wants him to beat his former arch-rival? …

— Washington State coach Ernie Kent told The Arizona Daily Star‘s Bruce Pascoe that he can’t remember a more competitive conference from top to bottom and Kent should know from his extensive history with the league dating to his days as a player at Oregon. “Being a player in it, and a coach in it and an analyst, I can tell you it’s true,” said Kent, who worked at the Pac-12 Networks between stints coaching the Ducks and Cougars. “As I said at (preseason) media day, if they picked us last, it’s going to be a heck of a conference race this year. I knew my team and yet I knew we had a lot of good teams. Sure enough, here it is. It’s an incredible conference race. It makes great viewing for the fans.” …

— Arizona has scored 80 or more points in nine consecutive games. It is the longest such streak since the Wildcats eclipsed the 80-point mark in 11 straight games during the 1997-98 season when Mike Bibby, Miles Simon and Michael Dickerson engineered an offensive juggernaut. That 11-game streak followed a nine-game run of 80 or more points to start that season. Arizona averaged 90.8 points a game that season. Here is the 11-game streak that included eight games of at least 91 points:

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NO. 18 ARIZONA (14-3, 2-2) VS.
Washington State (9-7, 1-3)

Tip Time: 6:36 p.m. MST
TV: Pac-12 Networks (Ted Robinson/Bill Walton)
Radio: Arizona IMG Sports Network (Brian Jeffries/Ryan Hansen)

THE SERIES
Overall: Arizona leads 59-16
In Tucson: Arizona leads 29-7
Current Streak: Arizona won 8
Sean Miller vs. Wazzu: 8-2
Last Meeting: Arizona won, 88-59, on Feb. 15, 2015

WHAT IS PRODUCTIVITY RATING?:
PP: Productivity Points (Points, assists, rebounds, steals, blocked shots, FGs made, FTs made added together and then subtracted by missed FGs, missed FTs, personal fouls and turnovers)
MIN: Minutes played overall
PR: Productivity rating per minute played (Productivity points divided by minutes played)

SEASON PRODUCTIVITY RATING
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PRODUCTIVITY REPORT
ARIZONA PAC-10/12
PLAYERS OF THE YEAR:
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ARIZONA 99, WASHINGTON 67
PRODUCTIVITY RATING
* — STARTERS
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ARIZONA’S TOP SCORING CENTERS
Rank: Overall school ranking.
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HOW ARE THEY DOING?
Present power ranking of non-conference opponents Arizona has played according to KenPom.com.
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PAC-12 POMEROY RATINGS
Present RPI ranking of Pac-12 teams according to KenPom.com.
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THREE-POINT FIELD GOALS CAREER
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LONGEST McKALE WIN STREAKS
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ARIZONA SCHEDULE/PRODUCTIVITY RESULTS
*-John Wooden Legacy in Fullerton/Anaheim (Calif.)
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ALLSPORTSTUCSON.com publisher, writer and editor Javier Morales is a former Arizona Press Club award winner. He has also written articles for Bleacher Report and Lindy’s College Sports.

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