Arizona Basketball

Kobi Simmons moves on after freshman season, declares for NBA Draft

Share Tweet Arizona freshman guard Kobi Simmons, who played a key role in a season-opening win over Michigan State and an early...

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Scout’s Gershon: Romar is Miller’s top option and former Washington coach wants Arizona assistant job

Share Tweet Much of when a new coach is about to be hired speculation can run rampant. In terms of the the...

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Rivera: Shut the Front Door …

Share Tweet So, the NCAA men’s basketball tournament isn’t even 24 hours old and we have talk of next year’s top 25....

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Legendary coach Jim Reynolds is new Salpointe basketball coach

Share Tweet It has been confirmed to AllSportsTucson.com that legendary coach Jim Reynolds will be the new basketball coach at Salpointe....

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Audio interview: Pastner touches on Georgia Tech success, 20th anniversary of Arizona’s title and more

Share Tweet Click the play button to listen to the interview with Josh Pastner: Caught up with former Arizona player and assistant...

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Olson, Gardner, Stoudamire get together for Celebrity Game

Share Tweet SCOTTSDALE – It’s not often former University of Arizona head basketball coach Lute Olson gets applauded here in the Valley...

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Five top reasons why Pac-12 has not won title in 20 years

Share Tweet The “Conference of Champions”, as Bill Walton says assuredly each broadcast about 100 times, has not won a men’s basketball...

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Arizona Wildcats hoops: Names of potential replacements surfacing for Pasternack on Miller’s staff

Share Tweet First came the tweet a couple of days ago that former Washington coach Lorenzo Romar may be a target for...

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Rivera talks Arizona Wildcats championship experience from 20 years ago

Share Tweet Longtime Arizona basketball beat writer Steve Rivera was a guest of the Arizona Public Media’s “Metro Week” show today reflecting...

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Pasternack might be fourth in Miller coaching tree to land head coaching position

Share Tweet One report on Wednesday suggested Arizona associate head coach Joe Pasternack is a “serious” candidate for the Cal Santa Barbara...

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Pekka Markkanen recalls Lauri’s early work ethic

Share Tweet Pekka Markkanen has what he calls an old diary — a record of how much his son, Lauri, was playing...

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The Sports Guys: Talking Markkanen, what’s next for Arizona

Share Tweet The Sports Guys gathered after Lauri Markkanen’s announcement he was turning pro to talk about the freshman’s decision, what’s next...

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UA’s Miller finished second in AP Coach of the Year honors

Share Tweet Sean Miller finished second to Mark Few in the Associated Press coach of the year honors. Few has Gonzaga in...

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Markkanen says goodbye to Arizona, next stop the NBA

Share Tweet The Finnisher is officially finished … at Arizona. After a year that was spectacular at times and not so much...

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Video: Arizona’s Lauri Markkanen declares for the NBA Draft

Share Tweet The Arizona basketball team held a press conference Thursday to announce, to nobody’s surprise, that freshman Lauri Markkanen was declaring...

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Pastner trying to join Arizona Wildcats who’ve won a title as head coach tonight in NIT championship

Share Tweet Josh Pastner will attempt to join three other former Arizona Wildcats as head coaches who won a national or world...

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Lute Olson: ‘It’s just a matter of time before Sean gets there’

Share Tweet Lute Olson has heard the criticism Sean Miller is going through. Olson has been there and done that when it...

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Markkanen not named a Wooden Award All-American

Share Tweet So, Lauri Markkanen’s remarkable season wasn’t good enough to become an All-American. He was among the top 25 college basketball...

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Arizona-Indiana? Miller vs. Miller? ‘That would be really cool’

Share Tweet The Arizona basketball team has played Kentucky in the biggest game possible — the national title game, back in 1997....