Basketball is a team game, but there are some players who come through who embody that team and everything it stands for. Sam Thomas has been that player for the past five years. Now, the Arizona Wildcats need to defeat a tough North Carolina squad to extend her time in cardinal and navy.
For Thomas and Ariyah Copeland, it will be their last games in McKale Center win or lose. While fellow seniors Cate Reese, Shaina Pellington, and Bendu Yeaney will all return for the extra COVID-19 year granted by the NCAA, Thomas is using that extra year now.