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Editor's note: Doug Haller wrote this story earlier this month, but we've brought it back in honor of the Wildcats' 1997 national championship, which was won on March 31, 1997.
Twenty years ago, the University of Arizona’s championship dream began long before the men’s basketball season even started.
Freshmen Josh Pastner and Mike Bibby began shooting at night. Just the two of them. At the university’s McKale Center if it were available, but if not, then at a middle school or at a court near the football stadium.