Three days after coach Sean Miller blasted his team’s decision-making in a shoddy win over South Dakota State, it was pretty clear that the Arizona Wildcats received the message.
After shooting 3-for-17 from 3-point range and generally failing to get the ball to the near-perfect Zeke Nnaji in that game, a performance Miller called “poor and inefficient,” the Wildcats clobbered Long Beach State with a combination of smarter 3-point shooting, post feeds, transition baskets and Nico Mannion heroics.
Entering the game with a nation-leading field-goal percentage of 84.1 percent, Nnaji wasn’t quite perfect this time, but he hit 9 of 13 from the field to score 21 points while Mannion led the Wildcats with 22 points and eight assists to only one turnover.