Top 5 Most Under Appreciated Players of the Sean Miller Era

(3)  Nic Wise 

When Sean Miller came to Tucson things looked bad.  Standouts Chase Budinger and Jordan Hill declared for the NBA draft a year early, giving Miller not much firepower to work with for the 2009-10 season.

Luckily Nic Wise stuck around and gave Arizona some veteran leadership at point guard. Arizona was fortunate to get a good freshman class at the last second, but this young team was a year away from greatness.

Arizona was only 16-15 Wise’s senior campaign . If Arizona did not have Wise it would have been a lot worse. He had three game winning buckets that season, including an incredible buzzer beater against Lipscomp early in the year.  He was also named All Pac-10 First Team that season.

Without Wise, Miller’s rookie season in the Old Pueblo could have been historically bad.

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