Arizona women’s basketball is losing Sam Thomas, Ariyah Copeland, and Semaj Smith. That is known. There are still many unknowns, though, and the Wildcats’ head coach created even more of them with some of her comments after the second-round loss to North Carolina in the NCAA Tournament.
“This program here now, we are nationally respected,” Barnes said. “We are getting high-level recruits and then we have two McDonald’s All-Americans coming in, two Gatorade Players of the Year. We’ll add some other players to the roster and make some changes to the roster.