Arizona Basketball

WATCH: Kenny Lofton throws out first pitch of World Series

Share Tweet Former Arizona Wildcats basketball player Kenny Lofton walked to the mound, took a selfie, stuffed his phone into a back...

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Lute Olson’s NBA players nearing $1.1 billion in salary

Share Tweet Lute Olson last coached in the 2006-07 season, but his former Arizona Wildcats are still taking their basketball talents all...

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Arizona Wildcats open 2016-17 NBA season with 12 players

Share Tweet [rps-paypal] Yahoo! Sports writer Jeff Eisenberg researched NBA opening-day rosters and determined the Arizona Wildcats have the sixth-most former players...

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Catching up with 32 Arizona Wildcats as head coaches high schools to pros

Share Tweet [rps-paypal] The number of former Arizona Wildcats as head coaches from high school to the professional ranks stands at 32...

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Sean Miller: No comment about Allonzo Trier eligibility

Share Tweet Arizona Wildcats coach Sean Miller wasn’t able to offer any clarification on the status of sophomore guard Allonzo Trier during...

Oregon ends Arizona Wildcats’ run as preseason Pac-12 favorites

Share Tweet Arizona’s four-year streak of being the Pac-12’s men’s basketball favorite is over. Oregon has been tabbed to win the league...

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New Arizona hoops commit Ira Lee: ‘Pure energy’

Share Tweet Arizona’s Sean Miller can recruit the five-star recruits, the one-and-dones. But the thing about the Wildcats coach is that he...

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Arizona Wildcats have 23 players in professional basketball ranks after Nets waive Budinger

Share Tweet [rps-paypal] Four members of Arizona’s team last season — Kaleb Tarczewski, Gabe York, Ryan Anderson and Mark Tollefsen — are...

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Who shined in Red-Blue? Ristic, Allen, Markkanen and Smith

Share Tweet Five observations from Arizona’s Annual Red-Blue while wondering was that a real dunk contest or not? I’ve never seen so...

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As rumors swirl, Miller mum on Allonzo Trier’s status

Share Tweet If you have been following Arizona Wildcats basketball on social media or on certain message boards in the past week,...

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Alkins wins Red-Blue slam dunk contest with dunk over Miller

Share Tweet [rps-paypal] AllSportsTucson.com’s Anthony Gimino contributed to this report Sean Miller has a price. And that price, not surprisingly, is defense....

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Honoring Fred Snowden & the Elite 8 team of 40 years ago

Share Tweet If you love Arizona basketball now, then you would have really loved what Fred Snowden and the “Kiddie Corp” did...

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Arizona Wildcats 20 years ago today: What happened on this day in magical title run

Share Tweet [rps-paypal] EDITOR NOTE: AllSportsTucson.com will run a feature this basketball season highlighting what happened 20 years ago on that particular...

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BOOK EXCERPT: Miles Simon ‘meant everything’ during 1997 title run

Share Tweet NOTE: This is a chapter from “100 Things Arizona Fans Should Know and Do Before They Die,” a 2014 book...

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Mike Bibby on ’97 team: ‘a bond that us guys will always have’

Share Tweet The lasting memories of Arizona’s 1997 NCAA Tournament are easy: Bennett Davison finding the courage to muss coach Lute Olson’s...

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An Arizona Wildcats great coaching a Sun Devil in pro hoops?

Share Tweet [rps-paypal] FORMER ARIZONA HOOP PLAYERS AS CURRENT HEAD COACHES Former Arizona State center Jordan Bachynski will soon join the Nagoya...