Only three weeks of conference play have passed, but Arizona has already slogged through the murderer’s row that is No. 1 Stanford, No. 3 USC and No. 8 UCLA.
Predictably, the Wildcats lost to all three teams, because pretty much everyone does.
In turn, however, five of UA’s final six Pac-12 games are against teams in the bottom half of the conference.
Is having those elite teams in the rearview mirror a weight off Arizona’s shoulders, or does it just mean there’s even more pressure to win down the stretch, knowing they have ground to make up?