This summer, each member of the Star sports team will assemble a list of the five most memorable Arizona games they've covered since joining the beat. This week, Justin Spears will reflect on five football and men's basketball games.
No. 5: Arizona outlasts Washington in Pac-12 Tournament before pandemic shuts down seasonWhat went down: Fifth-seeded Arizona defeated Washington 77-70 in the first round of the Pac-12 Tournament on March 11, 2020, in Las Vegas.
People are also reading… However, T-Mobile Arena won't be"McKale North" anymore — even if the Wildcats turn Wednesday's win into a four-game romp through the Pac-12 Tournament. So once their confidence-building win ended, moving them to 21-11 and into a Pac-12 quarterfinal game Thursday against fourth-seeded USC at 2:30 p.m., the Wildcats couldn't avoid the reality of what is now being called a pandemic.Player of the game: Arizona freshman guard Josh Green, who had eight points on 29% shooting against the Huskies in the regular-season finale, ended the afternoon with a team-high 19 points to go along with four rebounds, three assists and two steals.
The Wildcats — led by the star freshman trio of Pac-12 Freshman of the Year Zeke Nnaji, point guard Nico Mannion and Green — ended their season 21-11 and left a lot on the table as the entire sports world shut down. Said Green:"It was a whole rollercoaster of emotions. We go from beating Washington and playing an amazing game and we feel like we have great momentum and everyone is really positive, to the next day we’re told the season is done. There were a lot of high hopes, and then we’re told COVID was going to ruin it, so I didn’t know what to think of it."
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