For the first 14 minutes, the UC Irvine Anteaters kept things interesting against the Arizona Wildcats, trailing by just five with 5:44 left in the first half.
But then Arizona fired up the engines, closing the half on a 13-2 run and never looking back.
The Cats took a 39-23 lead into the locker room, and eventually won the game by the score of 79-57.
Dusan Ristic, who was playing familiar foe Ioannis Dimakopoulos, got off to a hot start, dropping 14 points in the first half on 6-of-8 shooting.