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Just around five months ago, a 30-point performance against the defending national champion Florida Gators put freshman forward Koa Peat on the college basketball map. “Koa, it was a coming out party for him, so to speak,” UA coach Tommy Lloyd said at the time. “Everyone’s known about him, but no one’s really studied him […]
TEMPE—The Arizona GymCats landed in the opening round play-in meet against Arizona State largely because of disastrous bars rotation at the Big 12 Championships. They had a chance to rectify that right from the start of the dual meet against the Sun Devils, but they weren’t able to carry that redemption through to the end. […]
With the 2026 season past the halfway point, all signs point to Arizona missing the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2019. Depending how this upcoming weekend goes, the Wildcats could surpass their loss total from a year ago with six weeks left in the regular season. But there’s still plenty to play for, […]
Yes, Arizona men’s basketball is having its biggest moment in 25 years, but that does not stop spring ball from rolling on for Arizona football. A couple of coaches did take the time and made the trip to watch the basketball team win its Elite Eight game. However, with the head coach and coordinators gone […]
Reaching college basketball’s Promised Land is the goal for any program. Winning at the Final Four is what cements a team in the annals of basketball history. Arizona men’s basketball is in the Final Four for the fifth time in program history and the first since 2001. Arizona will be playing in its eight all-time […]
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 […]
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 returned from San Jose early Sunday morning to the sight of hundreds, if not thousands, of fans camped out around McKale Center to welcome the Wildcats home. The team is only in town until Wednesday, when it flies to Indianapolis ahead of the national semifinal with Michigan. In between? “Another normal week,” Lloyd said […]
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 […]
In reaching its first Final Four since 2001, Arizona has regularly used eight players who have each made significant contributions to this historic season. All eight have led the Wildcats in scoring at least once, and seven have topped the 20-point mark. On any given night, one of those eight could be the key to […]
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 […]
For much of this season, Arizona and Michigan have been considered two of the best teams in the country if not the best. The debate over which one was better raged on, and all we could hope for was that they’d eventually meet to see who was truly the best. Now that’s finally happening, albeit […]
It’s on everyone’s minds this time of year. The transfer portal, who’s entering, who’s going where. Programs are going to lose players in this day and age. Maybe many. Maybe every year. It’s the way of the world in the modern Division I landscape. That doesn’t mean coaches aren’t looking to minimize the attrition with […]
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 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 will take the stage in prime time at this year’s Final Four in Indianapolis. The Wildcats will face Michigan Saturday at Lucas Oil Stadium in the second national semifinal game, which will tip off at approximately 5:49 p.m. PST, or 30 minutes after the conclusion of UConn vs. Illinois. The Final Four will be […]
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 […]
The first notion that Arizona might have something special on its hands with Tommy Lloyd as head coach came in November 2021, when the Wildcats took down a Top 5 Michigan team in Lloyd’s fifth career game at the UA. The win catapulted Arizona into national relevance in Lloyd’s first season, and the program has […]
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 […]
SAN JOSE—Depending on what time they got up, Saturday morning and afternoon was full of stress and anxiety throughout Wildcat Nation. Not for Tommy Lloyd. “I woke up this morning—this is a true story—and I thought, are we in the Sweet 16 or the Elite Eight?,” Lloyd said. “The moment I thought that, I knew […]
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 […]
SAN JOSE—Ahead of playing in the Sweet 16, where Arizona had lost four straight times, Ivan Kharchenkov said he doesn’t believe in curses. Why would he, since they no longer apply in Wildcat Country. The UA is headed to its first Final Four since 2001 after beating Purdue 79-64 in the West Region finals on […]
It was another adventure for the No. 14 Arizona Wildcats, but sophomore pitcher Jenae Berry turned in her best outing as a Wildcat to secure the series win against Baylor. After taking Friday’s game in run-rule fashion, UA won Saturday’s game 11-7. The Wildcats go for the series sweep on Sunday. “I’m so proud of […]
The Sunshine State has been a gloomy place so far for Arizona. The Wildcats lost 13-3 at UCF in eight innings on Saturday, ensuring they’ll head into Sunday with a third series loss in as many tries in Big 12 play. They entered the final game of the previous two series with a chance to […]
It’s Game Day! For a spot in the Final Four! The top-seeded Arizona Wildcats (35-2) take on the second-seeded Purdue Boilermakers (30-8) in the West Region finals. It’s Arizona first appearance in the Elite Eight since 2015 as it seeks to end a 25-year Final Four drought. Here’s all the info you need to watch, […]