At the beginning of the season, Arizona had one goal: return to the NCAA tournament.
“You try not to go through a period where you don’t make the NCAA tournament,” coach Dave Rubio said before the season started. “Every single year your goal is to make it, and every year you should make it.”
After a year when they posted a historic turnaround, the Wildcats reached that goal with Sunday evening’s announcement that they are on their way to face the SEC’s Missouri Tigers (23-7, 13-5) in this year’s tournament.
Arizona will travel to Lincoln, Nebraska for the first weekend.