No. 7 Arizona doesn't want Azuolas Tubelis to be off the court — but if he gets into foul trouble, the Wildcats have found ways to win without him.
Bruce Pascoe If there’s a positive for Arizona in Azuolas Tubelis' recent struggles, maybe it’s learning how to survive without him.They were nearly bounced from the second round of the NCAA Tournament when Tubelis had five points and three turnovers against TCU in a game UA needed overtime to win. Four days later, Arizona’s season ended in a 72-60 loss to Houston when Tubelis went 0 for 8 from the field and turned the ball over four times.
Five days before that, in Arizona’s 88-79 loss at Stanford, Lloyd said “the foul issues were tough” when Tubelis was ineffective in the Wildcats' defeat. But after the game, Lloyd indicated it was not his intention to go small as much as stick with his best players. Asked if he considered playing one of his freshman big men, Henri Veesaar or Dylan Anderson, to keep size in the lineup against the big Stanford lineup, Lloyd remained committed to his top seven players.
But the larger sample size looks like this: Arizona was 22-3 before playing Stanford. Ballo and Tubelis have combined for 21 double-doubles this season. They both had double-doubles in three games that weren’t played at McKale Center: a Maui Invitational win over Cincinnati and victories at Oregon State and at Washington.
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