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Arizona baseball drops midweek home game to West Virginia

It’s hard to defend free bases. Arizona pitchers struck out 16 batters and only allowed five hits on Tuesday night, but they also issued 10 walks and hit two batters in a 7-4 loss to West Virginia at Hi Corbett Field. “We gave them pretty much all seven runs,” UA coach Chip Hale said. “They […]

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Arizona gymnastics notebook: On regionals, Big 12 awards, injuries, and more

There’s at least one more week of Arizona gymnastics coming up. The GymCats traveled to Tempe to take on Arizona State in Wednesday’s “play-in” meet for a chance to advance to one of the two second-round meets on Thursday. Wednesday’s meet starts at 2 p.m. MST and will stream on ESPN+. There are still a […]

Arizona women’s basketball: Montaya Dew announces medical retirement, MJ Jurado to transfer

It was a tough day for Arizona women’s basketball. Montaya Dew, the highest ranked recruit in program history, announced her medical retirement shortly after freshman guard Mireia ‘MJ’ Jurado announced her intention to transfer. Dew had a difficult tenure at Arizona. The No. 8 player in the class of 2023 enrolled early, foregoing possible honors […]

SB Nation Reacts: How will Arizona do at the Final Four?

It took Arizona 25 years to do so, but it’s finally back in the Final Four. And a lot of you thought that was going to be the case. Before the NCAA Tournament we asked how far you thought the Wildcats would go, with an astounding 92 percent of respondents to our poll predicting a […]

NCAA Tournament: Arizona’s dominance at foul line not a conspiracy, just a well-executed game plan

Complaining about officiating is low-hanging fruit for sports fans. If your team is losing, the refs had something to do with it. Certainly isn’t because the other team is better. Every fan base bitches about missed calls, phantom whistles and perceived biases. Even Arizona’s, which considers Tony Padilla to be their personal nemesis, though there’s […]

Arizona softball: Sydney Stewart’s golden day ends in sweep of Baylor

Arizona All-American catcher Sydney Stewart didn’t get a lot to hit this weekend. She walked six times in the three-game series, but once again she got one good pitch and made Baylor pay. Her three-run homer put Arizona ahead in the fourth inning on the way to a 6-3 Wildcat win to sweep the series […]

Arizona baseball swept at UCF after 13-inning loss

It took more than a year, but Arizona has completed a Big 12 series without earning a win. The Wildcats were walked off 3-2 in 13 innings at UCF on Sunday afternoon. It’s the first time Arizona (9-18, 2-7 Big 12) has been swept since joining the conference last season. The Knights won it on […]

Help send AZ Desert Swarm to the Final Four!

It really wasn’t that long ago that Arizona opened the 2025-26 season in Las Vegas by falling behind 12 points to Florida less than eight minutes into the game. By the end of that night, though, the Wildcats had knocked off the defending national champions, setting the tone for an historic journey that now includes […]

College basketball world reacts to Arizona advancing to Final Four

Arizona men’s basketball is the toast of the town online. The Wildcats advanced to the Final Four for the first time since 2001 by beating Purdue 79-64 in the NCAA West Regional Final. X, formerly Twitter, reacted accordingly. Arizona didn’t make it easy on itself by falling into a first-half deficit that led to some […]

Arizona softball run-rules Baylor in 1st matchup since 2017

The last time the Baylor Bears played in Hillenbrand Stadium is something Arizona Wildcat fans would rather forget. Arizona was the No. 2 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament. The Wildcats won the first game of their home super regional, then dropped two heartbreakers in a row to miss the Women’s College World Series. While […]

Home runs sink Arizona baseball in series opener at UCF

Arizona traveled a long way to get to its Big 12 series, and then watched its opponent hit the ball a long way out of the stadium over and over. Wildcat pitchers allowed four home runs in an 11-6 loss at UCF on Friday night in Orlando. It was the most homers yielded in a […]

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