The afternoon was supposed to be free and easy. Temperatures were in the low 80s, the sun was out, and the Arizona Wildcats had finished taking the morning’s scheduled tours of Barcelona.
It was the perfect time to get out and explore the city on their own, go wherever they want, see whatever they had yet to see, eat whatever they had yet to try.
“We gave our guys some free time, probably the most we had given them the entire trip because we were coming down the home stretch and wanted them to experience Barcelona in more of an unstructured way,” coach Sean Miller said.