For Star subscribers: The Wildcats have won a place in the hearts of the Tucson community.
Arizona sponsored its first women’s basketball team 50 years ago, 1972, hired PE instructor Lois Sheldahl as its coach and won the"state intercollegiate championship," knocking off NAU and ASU in a tournament at Mesa Community College.
But there is much more to Arizona’s early exit from the NCAA Tournament than just the end of the season. As the time-machine travelers from 1972 would’ve seen, the final piece of the Title IX movement is now in place.A crowd of 8,333 paid to watch Monday’s game at McKale Center and they didn’t give up and go home after the Tar Heels surged to such leads as 23-9 and 46-27.With 3:54 remaining — North Carolina leading 54-39 — almost no one had left their seat. The noise was unabated, non-stop loud.
This was a ‘tweener year for Arizona women’s basketball. Although the standard line was often that the Wildcats were somehow better than last season’s Final Four runnerup, it was never believable. All-American point guard Aari McDonald was too good to replace; that became painfully clear down the stretch. Arizona lost five of its last nine games and became the Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight. Four times, they scored 51 points or fewer.
It won’t be the conventional way of remaking a roster because Arizona returns 10 of its 12 leading scorers — 83% of its points — including starters Shaina Pellington, Bendu Yeaney, Cate Reese and Lauren Ware. When fall practice begins in October, Barnes will blend four elite recruits into the system, a group easily ranked the No. 1 recruiting class in school history and among the top 10 nationally.
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