As Arizona has ascended the women’s college basketball ladder, going from an afterthought to a surprise national title game participant and now a perennial NCAA Tournament entrant, finding schools willing to play the Wildcats in nonconference play has been a challenge.
Maybe that will change when the UA moves to the Big 12 Conference in a year, but it’s been a struggle during the tail end of its Pac-12 membership. However, the pre-conference slate put together for its final Pac-12 season looks pretty solid.
Arizona will play 12 nonconference games ahead of league play, along with two exhibitions, with eight of those contests at McKale Center.