So says Dan Wetzel of Yahoo! Ah, these college basketball coaches and their fickle ways. The move is the right one for Miller — and you wonder if Xavier can recover once again from a coach leaving its campus for a better job — as Arizona, you could argue, is not in the good shape Xavier is in right now but is the better program. Miller, 40, told Arizona he would remain ... Read More

KTAR out of Phoenix is reporting that USC coach Tim Floyd is going to jump ship on USC (before Lil' Romeo gets his shot? No!) to take over at fellow Pac-10 program (and a superior one) Arizona. Sports 620 KTAR's Mark Asher has learned that Tim Floyd has been chosen to take over the program, becoming the team's fourth coach in the last four years. Asher said that Floyd arrived in Tucson ... Read More

What to Look For: Three on three. Jordan Hill, Chase Budinger and Nice Wise against Earl Clark, Terrence Williams and Samardo Samuels. It should be fun. The Wildcats don't feel like a 12-seed. In fact, can you even remember the reasons to keep this team out? It feels more like a No. 8 vs. No. 1 here. The trouble for Arizona is the coaching mismatch and how that fits right into ... Read More

The Associated Press is reporting that former Wildcats head coach Lute Olson illegally (and hard to believe naively) tried to raise money during a "recruiting event" at the McKale Center. Those specifics have not been uncovered. For what it's worth, Arizona reported these violations on its own behalf last year. The NCAA plans to wrap up this investigation by the beginning of May. What they find, and how much wrongdoing was done, ... Read More

“The Student Section Supports” highlights one game each weekend that is under the national radar and/or has high upset potential. Last week’s preview was Texas A&M at Baylor, a game Baylor won, 72-68. When: Sunday, 10 ET (FSN). ARIZONA (18-8): The Wildcats have reeled off seven straight and are one of the hottest out there right now. Just when you thought that better-than-a-quarter-century streak of making The Dance would end this year, ... Read More

And it's because of the heinous acts of Houston's Aubrey Coleman, who treated Budinger's face like an aluminum can. Coleman was immediately ejected, and Arizona showed heart for the first time this season, using the incident as incentive to come back from a 12-point deficit to win in overtime. Coleman's seemingly heartfelt apology (with a little bit of a vague reasoning as to why the incident happened) is after the ... Read More

(Video below.) That may seem a bit harsh, but it's hard to argue. Why? Read on, won't you? UAB seemed to give Arizona every chance possible to come back and take the game last night in Tucson. UAB missed, free throws included, seven of its last nine shots, and blew an 11-point lead with 8:30 remaining. Then, with the score 71-69 after Arizona's Garland Junkins missed a free throw, Arizona's Kyle Fogg scrapped up ... Read More

Another bottle on another floor. As a Bulls fan, this made me smirk. But I have to say that Kevin O'Neill was pretty on-the-ball last night after this "garbage" *rimshot* occured. God job from him. Also, notice how... A) ...Easily O.J. Mayo slices through Arizona's defense. B) ...Davon Jefferson first taunts the student section as what he thought would be The Last Word in what must have had a few off-air exchanges C)...Rece ... Read More

Missing an entire season over a divorce? Yeah, this is starting to turn a little too ugly for Lute Olson's liking, as you could only imagine. Something is definitely amiss here and it could be getting rather ugly. It's hard to believe that just a mere divorce proceeding would cause Lute to take the entire year off. Oh yeah, and there's also the fact that Olson's wife, Christine, will be releasing a ... Read More

Sweet Maria. Kansas escaped. While most sports fans were absorbed with the Philadelphia/New England game, I was glued to this beauty of a basketball game. Then again, I have two televisions in my living room, so I had the luxury of keeping one eye on each. It wasn't the smoothest of games (more than 30 combined turnovers), but you can't say it wasn't entertaining. Brandon Rush's steal at the 2:20 mark of ... Read More