The Wildcats were placed in a South Region bracket that also features potential reunions of a sort against Illinois and Tennessee if the teams all make it to San Antonio for second weekend games.
Bruce Pascoe With an NCAA Tournament path ahead full of potential reunions, plus a distaste for hypotheticals, Arizona coach Tommy Lloyd was ready.
Gonzaga is way down the road, a matchup that would take five wins for each team — a ton of presumption that Lloyd wasn’t about to make. So Lloyd talked about the fact that Arizona will open Friday. “It’s awesome,” Lloyd said. “He and I talked for a long time this morning and we’re not sitting there celebrating or reminiscing. We were just talking normal basketball stuff. And, yeah, it’s pretty cool to think that we’ve done it because he’s really influenced me and I probably influenced him some. Maybe there’s something in the water there or something.”
Arizona is 31-3 and won both the Pac-12 regular-season and tournament titles, beating UCLA 86-76 in the conference tournament championship game on Saturday in Las Vegas. Another benefit for the Wildcats’ placement was that San Diego is a Friday-Sunday schedule, meaning guard Kerr Kriisa will receive another day to rest his sprained ankle.
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