Bear Down Wildcats

No. 14/13 Arizona at No. 3/3 UCLA
Saturday, January 21 at 2:00 p.m. (MST)
TV: CBS (Ian Eagle & Bill Raftery)
Radio: Arizona IMG Radio Network (Brian Jeffries & Scott Thompson)
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Round 1

Defense!

Well we can send a great message with a win against arguably the best team in the country with a win today.

No one is talking AZ. Game day spoke of Nova, Zags, UCLA and Duke being title teams. They left a lot of good teams out of the conversation but even on the PAC channel it's all Oregon and UCLA

BTW, Jay Williams on game day is just unwatchable. Just a perfect representative of Duke

Fuck UCLA!

azcat49 wrote:Well we can send a great message with a win against arguably the best team in the country with a win today.

No one is talking AZ. Game day spoke of Nova, Zags, UCLA and Duke being title teams. They left a lot of good teams out of the conversation but even on the PAC channel it's all Oregon and UCLA

BTW, Jay Williams on game day is just unwatchable. Just a perfect representative of Duke

Duke?

LOL.

EastCoastCat wrote:

azcat49 wrote:Well we can send a great message with a win against arguably the best team in the country with a win today.

No one is talking AZ. Game day spoke of Nova, Zags, UCLA and Duke being title teams. They left a lot of good teams out of the conversation but even on the PAC channel it's all Oregon and UCLA

BTW, Jay Williams on game day is just unwatchable. Just a perfect representative of Duke

Duke?

LOL.

Yes, Williams is a giant POS. Took a dig at Miller and hated on any team out west. He like all the other Duke POS can eat a dick

azcat49 wrote:

EastCoastCat wrote:

azcat49 wrote:Well we can send a great message with a win against arguably the best team in the country with a win today.

No one is talking AZ. Game day spoke of Nova, Zags, UCLA and Duke being title teams. They left a lot of good teams out of the conversation but even on the PAC channel it's all Oregon and UCLA

BTW, Jay Williams on game day is just unwatchable. Just a perfect representative of Duke

Duke?

LOL.

Yes, Williams is a giant POS. Took a dig at Miller and hated on any team out west. He like all the other Duke POS can eat a dick

Williams keeps wanting to jump on the backs of AZ

EastCoastCat wrote:

azcat49 wrote:

EastCoastCat wrote:

azcat49 wrote:Well we can send a great message with a win against arguably the best team in the country with a win today.

No one is talking AZ. Game day spoke of Nova, Zags, UCLA and Duke being title teams. They left a lot of good teams out of the conversation but even on the PAC channel it's all Oregon and UCLA

BTW, Jay Williams on game day is just unwatchable. Just a perfect representative of Duke

Duke?

LOL.

Yes, Williams is a giant POS. Took a dig at Miller and hated on any team out west. He like all the other Duke POS can eat a dick

Williams keeps wanting to jump on the backs of AZ

He did pick Trier to be the leading scorer in college basketball today.

great storylines today

1. Trier return and integration - does miller ease him in or ride him in his first game in a crazy road environment? Simmons to the bench or go small?

2. who can control tempo? uptempo game limits our bigs effectiveness particularly Ristic

3.defense wins championships? true for football - we'll learn a great deal today if it applies to P12 bball with UCLA playing that freewheeling style.

Looks like a replay of the "stage"-----la la land----- the Bruins set last year pre-game and halftime.

Today's game will have a presentation to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar "in honor" of his receipt of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Kareem will address the audience at halftime. Magic Johnson said to be at the game. (this all reported in this morning's LATimes).

So, a stage reset to pump the fans and players. It's their "Arizona game". Should be an even greater stage to slap the Bruins, huh? Bear Down!

EOCT wrote:Looks like a replay of the "stage"-----la la land----- the Bruins set last year pre-game and halftime.

Today's game will have a presentation to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar "in honor" of his receipt of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Kareem will address the audience at halftime. Magic Johnson said to be at the game. (this all reported in this morning's LATimes).

So, a stage reset to pump the fans and players. It's their "Arizona game". Should be an even greater stage to slap the Bruins, huh? Bear Down!

Will they be able to make it through the traffic to get there?

I know the expectation is just to transition with Trier's return, but I'm picking Arizona with the upset. Hope I'm right.

UAEebs86 wrote:

EOCT wrote:Looks like a replay of the "stage"-----la la land----- the Bruins set last year pre-game and halftime.

Today's game will have a presentation to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar "in honor" of his receipt of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Kareem will address the audience at halftime. Magic Johnson said to be at the game. (this all reported in this morning's LATimes).

So, a stage reset to pump the fans and players. It's their "Arizona game". Should be an even greater stage to slap the Bruins, huh? Bear Down!

Will they be able to make it through the traffic to get there?

Not if fans are coming from downtown. The Women's March is huge and started at 9AM. Hope our travel fans stayed West.

Nervous. . .

I don't think this Texas/Kansas game will be over by 2:00PM. I hope they delay the Cats game.

Irish27 wrote:I don't think this Texas/Kansas game will be over by 2:00PM. I hope they delay the Cats game.

They just said 4:12 tip at the break. Cutting it close...

Irish27 wrote:I don't think this Texas/Kansas game will be over by 2:00PM. I hope they delay the Cats game.

They will unless it goes to OT which it doesn't look like it will.

Get this JV game over and let the big boys play

So 1:12 pm PST?


Need to tell the tax guy to get on it.

Go Cats!!!

Good luck guys. I look forward to browsing the many posts about crowds, traffic, fouls, and why is Alford shooting 85%

Let's get this going. Very pumped!

MrBug708 wrote:Good luck guys. I look forward to browsing the many posts about crowds, traffic, fouls, and why is Alford shooting 85%

Radio guys emphasizing past margin of victory. . .NERVOUS.

LET'S

FUCKING

GO

I want a shirt like that with Lew Alcindor on it, since that's what I remember him as when he was a Bruin.

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

No boxing out, no interior D, and poor rebounding. Typical Alford defense.

Playing UCLAs game right now. . .

Gonna be Trier time. . .

Arizona not getting any calls, missed at least two over the backs on UCLA.

2 on Alkins, last one was pretty weak call considering they're letting them play

ghostwhitehorse wrote:Playing UCLAs game right now. . .

UCLA's lack of defense tends to draw teams into the fast game.

What a game! This is fun to watch and what college basketball is all about.

Anybody else having trouble sitting down? Got the mancave to myself and I'm on my feet!

The pace of this game is nuts!

I love when both Arizona and UCLA are loaded with talent

prh wrote:2 on Alkins, last one was pretty weak call considering they're letting them play

Agreed. They swallowed the whistle on Ristic's 13 steps in the post. Letting them play this style is good for the game. No need to slow it down with needless whistles

prh wrote:2 on Alkins, last one was pretty weak call considering they're letting them play

I'm basing it on a shitty stream but it looks like Kobi got fouled on the drive and the no-call lead to Rawle's second.

Alkins gets the Brandon Ashley treatment by the refs.

MrBug708 wrote:

prh wrote:2 on Alkins, last one was pretty weak call considering they're letting them play

Agreed. They swallowed the whistle on Ristic's 13 steps in the post. Letting them play this style is good for the game. No need to slow it down with needless whistles

He had to do 13 steps when fouled 3 times...

MrBug708 wrote:

ghostwhitehorse wrote:Playing UCLAs game right now. . .

UCLA's lack of defense tends to draw teams into the fast game.

That is a great point and very true. Bruins just keep coming on offense

UCLA is such a horribly coached team. Terrible defense and they just chuck. Luckily they are ungodly shooters. This team would never lose in the right hands

MrBug708 wrote:

ghostwhitehorse wrote:Playing UCLAs game right now. . .

UCLA's lack of defense tends to draw teams into the fast game.

*Imagins UCLA running into the basketball version of Tedy Bruschi. . . *

EastCoastCat wrote:

MrBug708 wrote:

prh wrote:2 on Alkins, last one was pretty weak call considering they're letting them play

Agreed. They swallowed the whistle on Ristic's 13 steps in the post. Letting them play this style is good for the game. No need to slow it down with needless whistles

He had to do 13 steps when fouled 3 times...

And those were just the offensive ones

UCLA finally gets called for its first foul at 12:30 and the fair-weather fans chant "bullshit." Nice.

PJC3!!!

Weak ass call on Pinder