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Second year Head Coach Sean Miller has very specific goals for his team this season. “I hope we finish in second. That means we’re competing for the PAC-10 championship, and that is one of the expectations here,” Miller said recently. There is reason to believe that he will be able to at accomplish that goal. It doesn’t hurt to have, what some pundits call the best player in the PAC-10 in Sophomore Derrick Williams. Williams, along with a backcourt of Momo Jones and Kyle Fogg in the backcourt should drastically improve on last season’s 16-15 record.
A SHORT HISTORY
The University of Arizona Wildcats will begin their 107th season of College Basketball which began in the 1904-1905 season. In 1914, the school hired James Fred “Pop” Mckale as the new Athletic Director and Head Coach. His first team posted a 9-0 record and he went on to elevate the program into intercollegiate play. In his seven seasons, Coach Mckale posted a 49-12 (.803). The main basketball arena, The Mckale Memorial Center, is named in his honor.
A number of players have gone on to play in the National Basketball Association to include the following (but not all) players:
Hassan Adams, Gilbert Arenas, Mike Bibby , Jud Buechler, Bison Dele, Sean Elliott, Richard Jefferson, Steve Kerr, Damon Stoudamire, Jason Terry and Luke Walton to name but a few.
The Wildcats basketball team has won one NCAA Tournament (1997) and one Tournament Runner up (2001). They have made it into the NCAA Final Four four times (1988, 1994, 1997 & 2001), the NCAA Elite Eight eight times (1976, 1988, 1994, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2003 and 2005), and the NCAA Sweet Sixteen fourteen times (1951, 1976, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005 and 2009). The team has made an appearance in the NCAA Tournament twenty seven times.
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