It is Miller Time at McKale...

Arizona's head basketball coach Sean Miller sent 15 players to the floor during last night's exhibition matchup between the Wildcats and the Western New Mexico University Mustangs from Silver City, New Mexico.

It became apparent early on that Coach Miller has plenty of ammunition this year and chances are he'll never run out of bullets.

Translation: It looks like the 2009 Arizona Wildcats have depth, possibly a rotation that may go as many as 11 deep. Miller substituted freely at McKale last night as a steady stream of players checked in at the scorers' table and then took to the court to log in their minutes.

The result: a 96-55 thumping of the Division II Mustangs. What a cast of characters. Where do we start? Let's start with the big men. Freshman Kyryl Natyazhko is 6-10, 255 and reminds you a little of Ivan Drago, the Russian boxer from Rocky IV. Ivan...I mean Kyryl,who hails from the Ukraine, looked good around the basket against the Mustangs and even unleashed one three-pointer that almost went in.

His backup, at center, is second-year man Alex Jacobson (7-0, 245) who, at least last night against the Mustangs, showed he could hold on to the ball and add a little creativity under the bucket--something that was lacking in his game last season.

Then you have the forwards led by returnee Jamelle Horne, (6-7, 215) ,along with three outstanding freshman in Derrick Williams (6-8, 235), Kevin Parrom (6-6, 205) and Solomon Hill (6-6, 230). Add to that a quintet of guards, headed up first and foremost, by veteran Nic Wise (5-10, 180), along with the likes of MoMo Jones (6-0,200), Garland Judkins (6-3, 200), Brandon Lavender (6-5,205) and Kyle Fogg (6-3,185).

If they all come through the Wildcats may have to add another coach to the bench just to keep track of each players' minutes. All kidding aside, the Mustangs from Silver City are not anywhere near the caliber of say USC, Cal or Washington and we will probably see Miller's rotation shrink a bit between now and the Pac-10 opener.

But from my perspective as a fan, sitting in Section 18 last night, I like what I saw. And with only one senior on the roster (which of course is Nic Wise, who just happened to score 21 points against the Mustangs), it is a given the Wildcats will only get better with time...Miller Time, that is.

Next on the agenda is Northern Arizona. By late Sunday afternoon we should have a few more questions answered.