March Madness: Arizona Wildcats Basketball Latest News and Tweets

March Madness: The Arizona Wildcats landed in Los Angeles, news and tweets about the upcoming Sweet Sixteen and Arizona’s match-up with Xavier.

Fox Sports Arizona:

What if Arizona’s Rich Rodriguez Coached Basketball, by Anthony Gimino

“Rodriguez was a multi-sport star at North Marion High School in Grant Town, W.Va., receiving scholarship offers in football and basketball. For hoops, he said, that included Marquette, Davidson and Marshall. But he had an itch to play football at the highest level possible, which meant walking on to West Virginia.”

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Fansided:

ZonaZealots: Six Questions About Wisconsin Basketball With Badger of Honor, by Shereen Rayan

“As we inch closer to the West Regional Semi-final games on Thursday, we asked six key questions to the Editor of our Sister site www.BadgerOfHonor about the upcoming possible Regional Final game between our two teams.”

Here’s the first poignant question: “Q: Did you feel that your Wisconsin Basketball team deserved a No. 1 seed over Arizona in the NCAA tournament and why?”

ZonaZealots: NCAA Tournament: Arizona faces Xavier in the Sweet 16, by Ryan Reyes

“For the third straight year the Arizona Wildcats have advanced to the Sweet 16. This year will be quite different from years past. Head Coach of Xavier, Chris Mack, was former assistant coach under previous head coach, Sean Miller. When Miller moved on to Arizona in 2009, Mack filled in his shoes right away.”

ZonaZealots: Arizona Basketball: Did You Hear? Arizona State Fired Their Coach! by Shereen Rayan

“According to SunDevilSource.com, “Arizona State fired its men’s basketball coach Herb Sendek after nine seasons and a 155-133 record, 68-86 in the Pac-12.”  Doug Haller, Pac-12 for AZ Central sports reporter, tweeted out last night that there was a meeting scheduled between ASU’s Athletic Director Ray Anderson and Sendek, the writing was on the wall”

Mar 21, 2015; Jacksonville, FL, USA; Xavier Musketeers guard

(10) and forward

(2) celebrate their victory over the Georgia State Panthers in the third round of the 2015 NCAA Tournament at Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena. Xavier defeated Georgia State, 75-67. Mandatory Credit: Tommy Gilligan-USA TODAY Sports

International Business Times:

Arizona Wildcats vs. Xavier Musketeers Basketball: Early Prediction, Spread, Over/Under, preview, By Tim Marcin

“Xavier rolled into the Sweet 16 by topping tournament darlings Georgia State and knocking off Ole Miss. The Musketeers spread the ball well, never relying on one particular scorer, while shooting an impressive 47.3 percent from the floor. Xavier ranks 196th in the NCAA (67.3 ppg) in points allowed and will have the tough task of containing an Arizona offense that shoots 48.9 percent from the field.”

Arizona Sports:

Arizona coach Sean Miller’s time at Xavier: By the Numbers, by Jacob Withee

“Xavier reached the NCAA Tournament four times under Miller that included an Elite Eight run. The Musketeers also won three regular season conference championships and one conference tournament championship in his time.”

Arizona Desert Swarm:

Arizona basketball recruiting: Two schools pulling away for Ivan Rabb, by dpottzzz

“Rabb had an official visit to Arizona on January 3 and two visits to Cal (one official, one unofficial) this year. Jeff Goodman specifically suggested that Rabb’s best fit is Arizona.”

Twitter:

It’s T.J.’s Birthday today, we wished him a Happy Birthday:

In case you missed it, here is the trip the team took from Tucson to Los Angeles, all in one video:

Dusan Ristic was happy to be in Los Angeles:

Damien Alameda visited Stanley Johnson’s Mater Dei High School:

The Arizona Wildcat Basketball team’s locker room at Staples is shared by the Los Angeles Kings Hockey Team:

More of what Staples Center looked like inside:

Here’s what Staples Center looked like last night outside:

And Inside staples center care of James Kelley (@jameskelley520):

And lastly, there are even die-hard Arizona Wildcat fans in Canada:

Press Conference with

Rondae Hollis-Jefferson

,

Stanley Johnson

and

T.J. McConnell

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