Shortly after Arizona and Oregon tipped off in Matthew Knight Arena, the always outspoken Bill Walton claimed the Wildcats are the best team in college basketball when they are “on their game.”
He is the same guy who spent much of the night playing with expired peanut butter (yes, that happened), so it would have been easy to dismiss his opinion and click the mute button. Besides, he is not exactly impartial when it comes to the Pac-12 and its institutions.
But maybe he was on to something.
The 24th-ranked Wildcats raced to an 11-point lead on the No.