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Once the best in the West, Arizona basketball is now painfully average

The Arizona Wildcats dropped another game to UCLA on Thursday, what has become the norm in what used to be one of the most heated rivalries in college basketball.

Arizona has lost five straight against Bruins, their last win coming at the 2018 Pac-12 Tournament when superhuman Deandre Ayton pummeled them for 32 points and 14 rebounds. The Wildcats don’t have that kind of talent, or size, anymore.

When 7-footer Christian Koloko exited Thursday’s game after picking up his third foul in five minutes, the Bruins were bigger and better at every position.