Whether Arizona makes the NCAA Tournament isn’t uncertain, but where the Wildcats end up going is. Just know that it’s going to be far away.
The 16 regional host sites were announced on Sunday evening, and they’re all more than 800 miles from Tucson. The only sites out west are in Corvallis (Oregon State) and Palo Alto (Stanford), where Arizona cannot be sent, which means a trip east.
But how far east? The closest ones are in Texas, in Austin (Texas) and College Station (Texas A&M), and Stillwater, Okla. (Oklahoma State). After that it’s Hattiesburg, Miss.