Arizona Wildcats Basketball
from the desk of Dan Price
My Wildcats are rolling!
Arizona took care of business tonight at McKale Center with a 97-68 trashing of #20 Auburn. When the polls come out late Monday, the Wildcats should be No. 1 in the country.
Tonight, in front of a packed house, #2 Arizona scored 60 points in the paint and dismantled Auburn with 18-year-old Koa Peat leading the way with 18 points, four rebounds, and five assists, while Brayden Burries and Jaden Bradley added 16 points apiece as the Wildcats led 44-32 at the half and then enjoyed 30-point leads at times in the second half.
Ivan Kharchenkov scored 12 points and dished out eight assists, and Anthony Dell'Orso chipped in 11 points. Motiejus Krivas played just 24 minutes, grabbed nine boards and scored eight points, while Dwayne Aristode scored eight points in just 13 minutes.
Arizona moves to 8-0 and keeps pace with #3 Michigan and #4 Duke. But this week's No. 1, Purdue, lost by 23 to No. 10 Iowa State, 81-58, as the Boilermakers fell to 8-1. It's very scary at the top, and it may be too early for my Wildcats to be ranked No. 1. But I'll take it!
It has been quite the journey for the University of Arizona over the last few weeks, with both the football team posting a 9-3 record and now bowl-bound, while Tommy Lloyd is all smiles, or should be, with the way his basketball team is performing.
Lloyd would be the first to caution the Arizona fans that it's way too early in the season to be strutting around the Old Pueblo, holding our hands in the air and yelling at the top of our lungs, "We are No. 1!" We are a long way from Big 12 play, and next week we head across the country to face a non-conference foe, Alabama.
Still, I'm a happy camper. Go, Wildcats!
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