It wasn’t expected for the Arizona men’s basketball team to leave Los Angeles empty-handed this weekend just before the start of the spring semester.
Things appeared to have finally hit full stride with the return of Kaleb Tarczewski into the starting lineup and the team having won eight consecutive games after a loss to Providence.
Even the loss to the Friars didn’t seem as bad, considering Providence has Kriss Dunn, arguably the best guard in the country. Arizona’s first Pac-12 Conference road trip outside of Arizona would come to show where the Wildcats stand.
For the first time since 2013 the Wildcats were swept in the City of Angels, losing to UCLA after the coach’s son, Bryce Alford, nailed a three-pointer in the closing seconds of the game, along with a quadruple overtime thriller in a roller-coaster fashion.