The Arizona men’s basketball enters this season with a reasonable amount of expectations. It’s 17th in the preseason AP poll and the Pac-12 media has the Wildcats finishing second.
Not bad when you consider the team that won 33 games last season is replacing three of its to five scorers from last season, all of whom went in the NBA Draft.
Then again, the team that won 33 games last season was tasked with filling the void left by the departures of thee of its top five scorers from the season before, so this is somewhat familiar territory in Wildcat Nation.