How much more physical have the Wildcats become since that game? They’ll find out Saturday.
Bruce Pascoe During his 33-win debut as head coach last season, Arizona’s Tommy Lloyd didn’t have a lot of losing memories to store. So the first one may have really stuck in his head.But Arizona’s 77-73 loss at Tennessee, after the Wildcats nearly made up for that shocking deficit to start that Dec. 22 game last season, foreshadowed Lloyd’s final losing memory of the season, too.
People are also reading… "I was lost," Tubelis said, recalling the rabid atmosphere at Thompson Boling Arena."I didn't know what I was doing on the court." "I didn’t think we were a soft team, but they were physical," Lloyd said of the two games."So it’s, ‘Can we find a way to be a little bit more physical in some of those matchups against a TCU or a Houston to kind of increase our margin for error?’"
The sixth-ranked Volunteers have the nation’s most efficient defense, according to Kenpom.com, while also ranking second in offensive rebounding percentage , effectively helping them make up for their relatively mediocre shooting. Not surprisingly, after UA ran over Texas A&M Corpus Christi 99-61 on Tuesday, Lloyd said he expected a"fistfight" against the Vols. When told of that remark Thursday during a meeting with reporters in Nashville, Tennessee wing Jahmai Mashack grinned.
"If you do that, we truly believe that it's going to give us a chance to be in most games, win most games. But there's nights when you run up against people that you can guard and they still make some shots — and Arizona is certainly capable of doing that."
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