Sometimes the opening minutes of a game tell the story of the day. Sometimes they are just a false promise. For the Arizona Wildcats, it was a case of the latter as they fell to Stanford 73-57 in a game that wasn’t aesthetically pleasing for either team.
Both teams shot under 40 percent for the game with Stanford hitting 38.7 percent and Arizona hitting 35.8 percent. It wasn’t any better from 3-point distance where the Cardinal went 5 for 25 (20.0 percent) and the Wildcats went 2 for 13 (15.4 percent).
Free-throw shooting was a mixed bag.