Playing a day after Thanksgiving isn’t always ideal. Lethargy has been known to sneak up on more than one team. That might have been a problem for the Arizona Wildcats, but only for about 3.5 minutes.
The Wildcats pulled things together quickly and ran away with a 70-27 victory over the UC Riverside Highlanders in front of 4,417 fans.
“We always want to punch first,” senior guard Lucia Alonso said.
The big question was whether the Wildcats would hold the Highlanders to the fewest points by an opponent in program history. They didn’t quite match the 16 points they gave up to NAU in 1974, but they did set the record for the fewest given up in the modern era (beginning in 1977-78).