SACRAMENTO, Calif.—Play with fire enough, you’ll eventually get burned.
In a season during which Arizona showed far too often a penchant for playing down to its competition, when it came time to put that aside for a deep postseason run the problem came back once again.
The Wildcats went scoreless for the final 4:42 in losing 59-55 to 15th-seeded Princeton on Friday afternoon in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. The loss ends the UA’s season at 29-7 and makes it the first program in NCAA history with multiple first-round defeats as a No. 2 seed.