LAS VEGAS–Unlike the NBA, there’s no load management in college basketball. Maybe there should be, Tommy Lloyd said Saturday night after Arizona beat UCLA for the Pac-12 title.
“I think it would be beneficial and it’s worth looking at,” Lloyd said after the Wildcats’ third game in as many days at T-Mobile Arena.
More precisely it was three games in 53 hours, and by the end of it Arizona’s 7-man rotation looked like they’d been through war instead of a tournament.
The postgame locker room was like a field triage tent, with ace bandages and KT tape all over the floor and bags of ice attached to several body parts.