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This is Pac-10 Basketball With 15 NCAA Championships (by !ve different schools) under its belt, it's easy to see why Pac-10 Basketball has as rich and as storied a tradition of hoop excellence as any Conference – if not more so. Some of the best ever to play the game have passed through this league – Jason Kidd, Gary Payton, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Lew Alcindor), Bill Walton, Hank Luisetti, Sidney Wicks, Bob Houbregs, Jack Gardner. The same is true on the coaching side – John Wooden, Slats Gill, Ralph Miller, Pete Newell, Marv Harshman, Everett Dean, Lute Olson. The “Conference of Champions” has claimed a record 15 NCAA Tournament titles, 34 NCAA Final Four Appearances, 60 consensus All-Americans, 16 National Players of the Year, 21 Naismith Memo- rial Basketball Hall of Fame members . well, you get the picture. Pac-10 Basketball began 92 seasons ago with the formation of the Paci!c Coast Conference. Cali- fornia won the !rst title in 1916 with a 5-3 record, ahead of competitors Oregon State (5-3) and Wash- ington (2-6). That season also produced the league's !rst All-American, Ade Sieberts of Oregon State. Six teams competed the following year, and Washington State’s 8-1 mark stood above the others. With the expansion of the PCC to eight teams in 1922, the league was split into north and south divi- sions, with the divisional champions meeting in a playoff. Idaho defeated California in the !rst playoff and produced the Conference's !fth All-American in eight seasons in Al Fox. UCLA's Lew Alcindor (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) and The NCAA Tournament became a reality with the 1939 season, and a Pac-10 (PCC) team was the Bill Walton flank John Wooden - arguably two of !rst to win it, as Oregon defeated Texas, Oklahoma and Ohio State en route to the title in Evanston, Ill. the greatest college players and coach ever. USC was in the Final Four the next year, while Washington State advanced to the title game in 1941, but fell to Wisconsin by !ve, 39-34. Stanford claimed the following NCAA crown with a 53-38 win over Dartmouth. Pete Newell’s California Golden Bears won the 1959 NCAA title with a win over West Virginia, and were runners-up to Ohio State the following season. Then came UCLA and its unlikely-to-ever-be-duplicated-again feat of seven consecutive NCAA Championships (11 overall), which was engineered by the great John Wooden – “The Wizard of Westwood.” The Bruins actually won a pair of titles in 1964 and ’65, then began their streak in 1967 (Alcindor’s !rst season). A loss to North Carolina State in the 1974 Finals ended the streak, but UCLA came back the following season to defeat Kentucky for its 10th title in 12 years. After UCLA captured the school's 11th title in 1995 with a victory over Ar- kansas, the Arizona Wildcats became the !fth Pac-10 team to capture the league's 15th men's basketball championship in 1997. The Wildcats became the !rst team in the history of the tournament to defeat three number one seeds (Kansas, North Carolina and Kentucky) en route to the title. In recent years, the Pac-10 has enjoyed a large amount of success - as evidenced by NCAA "Sweet 16" appearances in 21 of the past 23 seasons, at least half its teams in postseason play in 20 of the last 22 seasons, 12 national and freshman players of the year in the last 21 seasons and a couple of NIT pre- and postseason titles, just to name a few of the accolades – giving the Pac-10 the right to proudly be referred to as “The Conference of Champions.” Oregon State's Gary Payton was one of college basketball's most This is Pac-10 Basketball. dominant players in the mid- 1980's. t /$""UJUMFTNPSFUIBOBOZPUIFSDPOGFSFODF t 4JODF UIF1BDIBTIBEQMBZFSTESBGUFEJOUIF mSTUSPVOEPGUIF/#"NPSFUIBOBOZPUIFSDPOGFSFODF Arizona’s Andre Iguodala is one of three former Pac-10 players to play for Team USA in the 2010 t 4JYGPSNFS1BDQMBZFSTPOUIF64"/BUJPOBM World Championships. 5FBNSPTUFSNPSFUIBOBOZPUIFSDPOGFSFODF Credit: Garrett Ellwood/NBAE/Getty Images 5)*4*41"$ #"4,&5#"-- ARIZONA WILDCATS ARIZONA NUMERICAL ROSTER WILDCAT FACTS No. Name Pos. Ht. Wt. Yr. Exp. Hometown (Last School) Location: Tucson, AZ 85721 0 Dondre Wise G 6-1 215 Jr. 1L Houston, Texas (Pima C.C.) Founded/Enrollment: 1885/38,800 1 Kyryl Natyazhko C 6-11 256 So. 1L Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine (IMG Academy, Fla.) Colors: Cardinal & Navy 2 Daniel Bejarano G 6-4 205 Fr. HS Phoenix, Ariz. (North HS) (Pantone® 200/281) 3 Kevin Parrom G/F 6-6 210 So. 1L Bronx, N.Y. (South Kent, Conn. HS) Joined Pac-10: 1978-79 5 Robert Arvizu G 6-0 185 Fr. HS Phoenix, Ariz. (North HS) All-time record: 1,584-873 (105 seasons) 12 Lamont Jones G 5-10 197 So. 1L Harlem, N.Y. (Oak Hill Academy) 20 Jordin Mayes G 6-2 170 Fr. HS Los Angeles, Calif. (Westchester HS) President: Dr. Robert Shelton 21 Kyle Fogg G 6-3 185 Jr. 2L Brea, Calif. (Brea Olinda HS) Faculty Rep: Jory Hancock 23 Derrick Williams F 6-8 240 So. 1L La Mirada, Calif. (La Mirada HS) Athletic Director: Greg Byrne 24 Brandon Lavender G 6-5 210 Jr. 2L Mesa, Ariz. (Mountain View HS) SWA: Kathleen L. LaRose 33 Jesse Perry F 6-7 210 Jr. TR St. Louis, Mo. (John A. Logan C.C.) Head Coach: Sean Miller (Pittsburgh, '92) 42 Jamelle Horne F 6-7 225 Sr. 3L San Diego, Calif. (San Diego HS) Career Record: 136-62 (6 years) 44 Solomon Hill F 6-6 235 So. 1L Los Angeles, Calif. (Fairfax HS) Arizona Record: 16-15 (1 year) 50 Alex Jacobson C 7-0 248 *Jr. 2L Brea, Calif. (Mater Dei HS) Pac-10 Record: 10-8 (1 year) 52 Max Wiepking F 6-6 193 So. 1L Englewood, Colo. (Kent Denver School) Office: (520) 621-4813 Fax: (520) 621-2202 Letterman Returning/Lost/Newcomers: 11/3/4. Returning starters in bold. *-Has used redshirt year. Associate Head Coach: Archie Miller Assistant Coaches: Emanuel Richardson, James Whitford Basketball SID: Richard Paige HEAD COACH - SEAN MILLER E-mail: [email protected] t"QQPJOUFE"SJ[POBhTIFBENFOhTCBTLFUCBMMDPBDIPO"QSJM CFDPNJOH Office: (520) 621-4163 the sixth head coach in the last 83 years. Home: (520) 790-4347 t$PBDIFE9BWJFSUPUISFFTUSBJHIU"UMBOUJD$POGFSFODFSFHVMBSTFBTPODIBN- Local Radio: KCUB (1290 AM) pionships while compiling a 120-47 (.719) record in !ve seasons. t*O TFUBSFDPSEGPSNPTUWJDPSJFTJOBTFBTPOBU9BWJFS FBSOJOH Home Court: McKale Center Atlantic-10 Conference Coach of the Year honors. (14,545/1973) t-FE9BWJFSUPUIF/$""5PVSOBNFOU&MJUF&JHIU BOE4XFFU Record in McKale: 475-96 (38 years) t1MBZFEPOUIF6OJUFE4UBUFTh8PSME6OJWFSTJUZ(BNFTUFBNUIBUFBSOFE Press Row Phone: (520) 621-4334 a gold medal. Press Will-Call: Northeast entrance Press Row Location: Courtside across from benches, baselines MILLER YEAR-BY-YEAR ALL CONFERENCE POSTSEASON ARIZONA RECORD HOLDERS Year School W-L W-L Fin. Conf. NCAA Other 2004-05 Xavier 17-12 10-6 T2nd A-10 POINTS 2005-06 Xavier 21-11 8-8 T7th A-10 0-1 Career: 2555 – Sean Elliott, 1986-89 2006-07 Xavier 25-9 13-3 T1st A-10 1-1 Season: 848 – Khalid Reeves, 1994 2007-09 Xavier 30-7 14-2 1st A-10 3-1 Game: 46 – Ernie McCray vs. CSLA, 2008-09 Xavier 27-8 12-4 1st A-10 2-1 2/6/60 Xavier totals (5 years) 120-47 (.719) 57-23 (.713) 6-4 (.600) 0-0 THREE-POINT FIELD GOALS 2009-10 Arizona 16-15 10-8 4th Pac-10 Career: 342 – Salim Stoudamire, 2002-05 Arizona totals (1 year) 16-15 (.516) 10-8 (.555) 0-0 0-0 Season: 120 – Salim Stoudamire, 2005 Career totals (6 years) 136-62 (.687) 67-31 (.684) 6-4 (.600) 0-0 Game: 9 – Salim Stoudamire vs. Oregon State, 2/20/05 REBOUNDS Career: 1190 – Al Fleming, 1973-76 Season: 375 – Jordan Hill, 2008-09 Game: 26 – Bill Reeves vs. UCSB, 2/1/56 Joe Skaisgir vs. CSLA, 1/31/62 ASSISTS Career: 810 – Russell Brown, 1978-81 Season: 247 – Russell Brown, 1979 Game: 19 – Russell Brown vs. Grand Canyon, 12/8/79 STEALS Career: 245 – Jason Terry, 1996-99 Season: 85 – Jason Terry, 1997 Game: 9 – Bennett Davison vs. Stanford, 2/28/98 BLOCKED SHOTS Career: 278 – Anthony Cook, 1986-89 Season: 102 – Loren Woods, 2000 Game: 14 – Loren Woods vs. Oregon, 2/3/00 14 2010-11 MEN'S BASKETBALL // TEAMS ARIZONA WILDCATS 2010-11 SCHEDULE 2009-10 RESULTS RECENT FINISHES November CONF. ALL Sun., 7.........Augustana College (X) ......... 4 p.m. (16-15, 10-8) Year W-L Fin. W-L Post. Sun., 14.......Idaho State ......................... 3 p.m. ........ FSAZ 78-79 10-8 4t 16-11 Thurs., 18 ....New Mexico State .......... 6:30 p.m. ........ FSAZ 11/15 Northern Arizona W 87-70 79-80 6-12 6 12-15 Sun., 21.......Northern Colorado (1) ......... 3 p.m. ........ FSAZ 11/19 Rice W 66-49 80-81 8-10 5t 13-14 Tues., 23 .....Bethune-Cookman (1) ... 6:30 p.m. .......... FCS 11/23 vs. Wisconsin (1) L 61-65 81-82 4-14 8t 9-18 Fri., 26 .........vs. Santa Clara (2) ......... 7:30 p.m. .......KWBA 11/24 vs. Colorado (1) W (ot) 91-87 82-83 1-17 10 4-24 Sat., 27 ........vs. Kansas (2) ................ 7:30 p.m. ........ESPN 11/25 vs. No. 24 Vanderbilt (1) L 72-84 12/2 No. 24 UNLV L (ot) 72-74 December 83-84 8-10 5t 11-17 Wed., 1 ........at Rice ...............................