From the desk of a diehard Arizona fan
What a week for our Arizona Wildcats!
Arizona, the 2nd-ranked college basketball team in the nation, runs the table in Kansas City, Missouri, this week at the Big 12 Conference Tournament with wins over UCF, Iowa State, and Houston.
Big 12 Conference regular-season champs and now the Big 12 Tournament champs!
Outstanding play from the "Big Eight" as starters: Jaden Bradley, Koa Peat, Brayden Burries, Moe Krivas, and Ivan Kharchenkov did their thing from the opening tip, while the Arizona bench unleashed: hot-shooting guard Anthony Dell'Orso, and Tobe Awaka, the top rebounder in the nation, in my book, who owns everything around the rim, and finally, some solid minutes off the bench from the eighth man in the rotation, Dwayne Aristode, produced a record of 32 wins and two losses.
Burries has become Arizona's long-range shooter with 55 made threes and owns a 15.9 scoring average as we head to the Big Dance. The hot-shooting freshman has scored 542 points in 34 games.
Dell'Orso is quickly closing the gap on Arizona's made three-pointers with 45 and is now averaging nine points a game. Peat and Bradley are averaging 13 points a game, while Krivas and Kharchenkov are at 10 points and have played in all 34 games. As for Awaka, who averages just 21 minutes of playing time a game, he is averaging 9.5 rebounds and has grabbed 323 boards -- 49 more than Krivas.
Arizona is averaging 86.1 points a game and has held 34 opponents to 68.8.
A balanced attack from our Wildcats.
A great season thus far, but it's far from over. Six more wins will do it!
It's now Sunday morning, March 15. In a few hours, it'll be Selection Sunday, and we will soon know who the first victim at the Big Dance will be.
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