Trying to Find Right Mind Before Madness Mannion Leads UA to Las Vegas
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DDCAZ.COM | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 2020 • SECTION C Editor: Ryan Finley / 520-573-4312 / [email protected] Trying to find right mind before Madness Mannion leads UA to Las Vegas KELLY PRESNELL / ARIZONA DAILY STAR 2019 DOWNLOAD THE Finding the formula Plenty to play for Unpredictable Pac-12 WILDCASTER APP Greg Hansen: Cats can look to Pac-12 tourney a chance for A team-by-team look at who Read stories, watch past for right roster mix / C2 UA to put it all together / C4 could hit the jackpot / C11 videos and listen to podcasts on your mobile device. It’s free! C2 Arizona Daily Star / Wednesday, March 11, 2020 RAY CHAVEZ / THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 2012 Cal’s Jorge Gutierrez probably got on the nerves of most Arizona fans when he was with the Golden Bears, but a tenacious defensive player like that is someone who can help you win big. FIVE PLAYERS FROM PAC-12’S PAST CAN SHOW CATS NEW WAY FORWARD rom Sombrero Peak to athlete, not an NBA prospect. He Mount Lemmon, from broke his foot as a senior in high F Sentinel Peak to Mount school. Yet he became the Pac- Wrightston, the Southern Ari- 10’s top player in 2002. zona chorus echoes: Sean Miller Randle was considered a has got to stop recruiting five-star mid-major prospect, sort of like recruits. Greg Hansen 2012 Arizona starting point guard No more McDonald’s Mark Lyons, who put in three All-Americans. years at Xavier before becoming a No more one-and-dones. played an NBA game, but did play clutch, all-conference, Sweet 16 It ain’t working. for 17 European teams. standout at Arizona. Go get another T.J. McConnell. • Jerome Randle, 2010, Cal. Gutierrez wasn’t a good Find the next Solomon Hill. Oh, Shooting guard. Still the Bears’ shooter, wasn’t an elite athlete, how we miss Nick Johnson. career scoring leader, 1,835 didn’t dazzle anyone on the AAU So far, no one has stepped points, Randle was the quint- circuit. All he could do is find a forward with a tangible, sustain- essential college ballplayer. He way to beat you. able plan for Arizona’s basketball averaged 18 points as a senior Young was in the dime-a-doz- success. It’s just: Don’t do this when the Bears won the Pac-10 en package of wing shooters who any longer. at 13-5. A 3-star recruit from the didn’t get serious attention from I have a plan that will work. Chicago area, Randle went to Cal the nearby Texas Longhorns or I’m serious. because it was a better ofer than Big 12 schools like Oklahoma and From 2001-15, the Pac-12 his other finalists: Tulsa, Dayton Kansas. He developed into a Big Conference produced five players and DePaul. Draft stock? He Game shooting specialist and of the year who were exactly the went undrafted and has played scored 2,304 college points. kind of stay-and-play prospects for more than a dozen pro teams The same not-quite-elite that could take Arizona back to from the Maine Red Claws to prospects exist every year, but the Final Four. his current club, Fuenlabrada in blueblood coaches don’t pursue Introducing: Spain’s Euroleague. them because it’s too irresistible • Sean Lampley, 2001, Cal. • Jorge Gutierrez, 2012, Cal. to sign five-star prospects and Power forward. He was a 3-star Point guard. Arizona fans surely ignore how fleeting their college recruit from the Chicago area remember Gutierrez because days are apt to be. who was probably going to attend he was annoying, playing with So the Lampleys and Clancys Eastern Michigan before new Cal passion and an in-your-face wind up at second-tier basket- coach Ben Braun, then at EMU, demeanor. He averaged 13 points ball schools where, given four persuaded Lampley to follow him for the Golden Bears as a senior, years, they become certified to Berkeley. Lampley became when they went 13-5 and finished game-changers. Cal’s all-time scoring leader, 1,716 in second place in the Pac-12. He DEAN KNUTH / ARIZONA DAILY STAR 2010 If you could assemble a lat- points, averaging 19.5 as a senior, was the league’s top defensive Former Cal player Jerome Randle didn’t receive any attention from the ter-day group of three-star play- helping the Bears finish 11-7, player. He was a 3-star recruit game’s perennial powers coming out of high school, but ended up averag- ers to match Clancy, Lampley, fourth in the Pac-10. Draft stock? who chose Cal over ofers from ing 18 points per game as a senior as the Golden Bears won the Pac-10. Randle, Gutierrez and Young, you Not much. He was the 44th over- UTEP, Northern Colorado and would need to travel with scissors all selection in the 2001 draft and UC Santa Barbara. NBA stock? where he led the Ducks with 21 the year. Lampley. Clancy. Ran- in March to cut down the nets never started an NBA game. Undrafted, although he did play points per game in 2015, reaching dle. Gutierrez. Young. None were at your conference tournament. • Sam Clancy, 2002, USC. in 47 NBA games before hitting the NCAA Tournament Round of first-round draft picks. None You would sell every seat in the Center. Undersized a bit at 6 the minor-league circuit. 32. He played with a chip on his were McDonald’s All-Americans. arena, and your product would be feet 7 inches, Clancy chose USC • Joseph Young, 2015, Ore- shoulder and could score from All played four years of college sustainable at the highest level of over Cincinnati amid claims gon. Wing. Young signed with deep 3-point range. Draft stock? basketball. college basketball. that he was paid $25,000 by the Providence after his high school He was selected 43rd overall but All had a knock against them. Unless you are Duke or Ken- Trojans. Those allegations were days in Houston, but was re- played in just 127 NBA games — Clancy wasn’t quite tall tucky or Kansas, it is the most never proved. In his senior year at leased from his letter-of-intent one career start — before a Euro- enough to be a dominant center, sensible path to success. USC, Clancy averaged 19 points and played two seasons for the League career that now finds him yet he became a sturdy inside and 10 rebounds on a 22-10, hometown Houston Cougars. playing in China for the Nanjing presence, the Pac-10’s player of Contact sports columnist Greg Hansen at second-place team. Draft stock? He was a three-star prospect Monkey Kings. the year in 2001. 520-573-4362 or [email protected]. On He was No. 45 overall and never who then transferred to Oregon, That’s five Pac-12 players of Lampley wasn’t a fluid enough Twitter: @ghansen711 THE RIGHT MIX Washington won the 2010 Pac-10 2019 champion: Oregon • Seniors (1): 11% 2014 champion: UCLA • Juniors (2): 6% Tournament championship on the • Scoring average: 70.5 points • Juniors (3): 22% • Scoring average: 81.8 ppg • Sophomores (4): 23% backs of its upperclassmen, with per game • Sophomores (2): 27% Points by class • Freshmen (3): 29% juniors and seniors combining for Points by class • Freshmen (3): 40% • Seniors (2): 17% 74% of the team’s scoring. • Seniors (2): 18% • Juniors (1): 13% 2011 champion: Washington A year later, the Huskies used • Juniors (1): 14% 2016 champion: Oregon • Sophomores (3): 46% • Scoring average: 83.5 ppg the same formula to repeat as • Sophomores (3): 18% • Scoring average: 78.8 ppg • Freshmen (4): 24% Points by class champs: Six juniors and seniors • Freshmen (5): 50% Points by class • Seniors (4): 53% combined to score 67% of the • Seniors (2): 28% 2013 champion: Oregon • Juniors (2): 14% team’s points. 2018 champion: Arizona • Juniors (1): 15% • Scoring average: 71.7 ppg • Sophomores (1): 10% Things have certainly changed in • Scoring average: 80.9 ppg • Sophomores (4): 39% Points by class • Freshmen (3): 23% the last decade, but the basic idea Points by class • Freshmen (2): 18% • Seniors (4): 53% — that scoring must come from a • Seniors (2): 24% • Juniors (2): 10% 2010 champion: Washington mix of savvy veterans and talented • Juniors (1): 22% 2015 champion: Arizona • Sophomores (0): 0% • Scoring average: 79.8 ppg freshmen — remains the same. • Sophomores (1): 16% • Scoring average: 76.4 ppg • Freshmen (6): 37% Points by class Here’s a look at the last 10 Pac-12 • Freshmen (5): 38% Points by class • Seniors (1): 24% Tournament champions and how • Seniors (1): 13% 2012 champion: Colorado • Juniors (3): 50% much each class contributed to 2017 champion: Arizona • Juniors (3): 38% • Scoring average: 67.5 ppg • Sophomores (3): 16% the team’s ofensive output: • Scoring average: 76.3 ppg • Sophomores (2): 18% Points by class • Freshmen (3): 10% Points by class • Freshmen (5): 31% • Seniors (3): 42% Wednesday, March 11, 2020 / Arizona Daily Star C3 WONDER MAKES ME ACHIEVE Australian Phil Evans traveled across the Pacific and into unfamiliar territory to join our internationally recognized Adaptive Athletics program. He’s now a phenomenal business student and member of our championship Men’s Wheelchair Basketball team. Phil is proof that wonder makes us dare to achieve the unimaginable. And the more wonder makes us do, the more it makes us who we are. ARIZONA.EDU/WONDER C4 Arizona Daily Star / Wednesday, March 11, 2020 CATS LIKELY HEADED FOR NCAA BID, BUT THERE’S STILL MUCH TO PLAY FOR By Bruce Pascoe WEDNESDAY ARIZONA DAILY STAR 2020 Pac-12 Men’s Tournament bracket The computers still love • What: Pac-12 Tournament, them.