It’s every college basketball player’s dream to experience the thrill of March Madness, so you can imagine how Arizona players felt Tuesday when they learned they were banned from the postseason.
“It hurt,” said sophomore forward Jordan Brown. “We prepared well throughout the entire preseason and we were competing to hopefully get to that point. But it’s not going to stop us.”
Because if Thursday’s game at Washington was any indication of how it will change them, the answer is that it won’t.
Just two days after the program self-imposed the ban, the Wildcats dominated the glass, played suffocating defense and used a balanced offense to rout the Washington Huskies 80-53 in Seattle.