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Arizona women’s basketball head coach Becky Burke considers the 2025-26 season to be “Year 0” because of the late start, particularly on the recruiting trail. Year 1 could be quite impressive and it all starts with a top 20 recruiting class. Both 247sports and ESPN have published their class rankings for incoming freshmen. 247 ranks […]
Through graduation and early entry, Arizona has six players from the Final Four team eligible for the 2026 NBA Draft. And four of them are on the list of invitees to the annual NBA Draft Combine. Seniors Tobe Awaka and Jaden Bradley and freshmen Brayden Burries and Koa Peat are among the 73 players invited […]
This past season Arizona made it back to the promised land, reaching the Final Four for the first the in 25 years. Next season it’s headed to the mecca of college basketball. College hoops insider Jon Rothstein is reporting that the UA will face St. John’s at Madison Square Garden in New York City on […]
You won’t find Arizona men’s basketball listed in the top 10 or 15 or even 25 of the 2026 transfer portal class rankings, where the program currently sits at No. 57. The same could be said for the 2025 list, where Arizona was tied for 138th. The 2024 transfer class was 36th, while in 2023 […]
With top college basketball players making well into the seven figures, it’s never been more tempting for underclassmen to return to school. Could Arizona’s Koa Peat be the next notable college player to return for more year? Some NBA teams think so, according to the most recent NBA mock draft from ESPN’s Jeremy Woo. ESPN […]
The college experience is different for everyone. For Ivan Kharchenkov, how much he’s enjoyed his likely contributed to the decision to experience another year of it. Arizona announced Tuesday that Kharchenkov will be returning to Arizona for his sophomore season, joining Motiejus Krivas as starters from the Final Four squad choosing to run it back […]
It only took one game to see that Koa Peat was not going to be play at the college level for long. And despite some ups and downs after that, the Arizona freshman is ready to begin his pro career. Peat officially declared for the 2026 NBA Draft on Friday, the final day for players […]
Becky Burke’s radio can be a source of important tidbits of information about Arizona women’s basketball. In late February, the Arizona women’s basketball head coach mentioned that the team had an unannounced verbal commitment from an international player. Evidence pointed to Polish wing Karolina Ułan. That has proven to be correct after Ułan announced her […]
Don’t be surprised if former No. 3 draft pick and Arizona women’s basketball star Aari McDonald isn’t active on a WNBA roster when the season starts. McDonald commented on social media this week that she would be playing in the 2026 season, but she would not be ready when it starts. McDonald has battled injuries […]
College basketball’s free agency season is well underway, with more hundreds of players entering the NCAA transfer portal since it officially opened on April 7. More will enter before it closes on April 21, but for the most part the vast majority of Division I athletes who intend to transfer have made done so. Arizona […]
With Kentucky Basketball still searching for its next point guard(s), we’ve got an update on one of the bigger names currently in the transfer portal. Well, at least it’s an update on the school believed to be Kentucky’s primary competition for Washington point guard Zoom Diallo, who visited Lexington over the weekend. While the Wildcats […]
UNC will be looking for a new point guard for next season. Derek Dixon, who entered his name into the transfer portal last week, has committed to the University of Arizona and Tommy Lloyd. The freshman averaged 6.5 points per game and led the Tar Heels in assists after he wrestled the starting point guard […]
In his second stint at LSU, Will Wade has assembled a staff full of former college head coaches. Joining that group is ex-Arizona star Damon Stoudamire. Fresh off a 3-year stint as head coach at Georgia Tech, Stoudamire will be a college assistant for the first time since the 2015-16 season at Memphis. That was […]
Sometimes, like in the case of my flight back from the Final Four where I was assigned a middle seat on a full flight but got to take advantage of an open window seat, things that seemed like they would not go well end up working out. Other times, like in the case of Arizona’s […]
It was a tremendous 2025-26 season for Arizona, which won a school-record 36 games while claiming Big 12 regular season and conference tournament titles and reaching the Final Four for the first time since 2001. Now what? Work is already underway on putting together the roster for next season, with plenty of holes to fill […]
INDIANAPOLIS—Relax, Wildcat Nation. He’s not going anywhere. Arizona has announced a contract extension for men’s basketball coach Tommy Lloyd, locking him in through the 2030-31 season and putting an end to a 2-week saga where he was considered a top candidate for the opening at North Carolina. “I’m happy to announce I’m staying at Arizona,” […]
Reaching college basketball’s Promised Land is the goal for any program. Winning at the Final Four is what cements a team in the annals of basketball history. Arizona men’s basketball is in the Final Four for the fifth time in program history and the first since 2001. Arizona will be playing in its eight all-time […]
For much of this season, Arizona and Michigan have been considered two of the best teams in the country if not the best. The debate over which one was better raged on, and all we could hope for was that they’d eventually meet to see who was truly the best. Now that’s finally happening, albeit […]
Complaining about officiating is low-hanging fruit for sports fans. If your team is losing, the refs had something to do with it. Certainly isn’t because the other team is better. Every fan base bitches about missed calls, phantom whistles and perceived biases. Even Arizona’s, which considers Tony Padilla to be their personal nemesis, though there’s […]
Arizona will take the stage in prime time at this year’s Final Four in Indianapolis. The Wildcats will face Michigan Saturday at Lucas Oil Stadium in the second national semifinal game, which will tip off at approximately 5:49 p.m. PST, or 30 minutes after the conclusion of UConn vs. Illinois. The Final Four will be […]
This is it. The final step before Indianapolis. The final step before a return to the Final Four. Forty minutes of basketball separates Purdue basketball and a de facto home game in the Final Four. The team can’t look ahead to that though as they’ve got an incredible challenge in front of them against #1 […]
No explanation needed here. It’s Saturday. It’s gameday. Elite Eight. Tonight. Let’s get into it. Ledman: If you read the Q&A I did over at Arizona Desert Swarm you already know my prediction. Or if you listened to the latest episode of the Boiler Alert podcast you know my prediction. I think this Purdue team […]
The Elite Eight is now set: in the West, it’ll be Arizona vs. Purdue. In the Midwest, we’ll get Michigan vs. Tennessee. In the South, Iowa and Illinois will go at it, and in the East, Duke and UConn will fight for supremacy. Duke had a tense game with St. John’s, highlighted by Caleb Foster’s […]
2025-2026 Season Overall Record: 35-2 Big 12 Record: 16-2 (1st) KenPom Ranking: 1 NCAA Tournament Performance Round of 64: 92-58 over #16 LIU Round of 32: 78 – 66 over #9 Utah State Sweet 16: 109 – 88 over #4 Arkansas Personnel Starters Bench Key Analytics (Per KenPom.com – National Rank ()) KenPom Ranking – 1 Offense Adjusted Efficiency: 128.5 (4) […]
SAN JOSE—Getting past the Sweet 16 was the first step for Arizona, but there’s still one more game before it can end that 25-year drought of reaching the Final Four. And to do so it will require knocking off a team that ended its own long drought a few seasons ago. Second-seeded Purdue made the […]