SAN ANTONIO — Adia Barnes has plans for Arizona women’s basketball’s future. Big plans.
The kind of plans that would make you pause, shake your head in denial, and mutter, ‘Are you crazy?’ if she hadn’t just coached the Wildcats to one of the most impressive runs in recent NCAA Tournament history.
“I’m not satisfied with just being here, being in the tournament,” Barnes said Sunday, moments after Arizona fell 54-53 to Stanford in the national title game. “I want to build a program where you’re surprised when they don’t win.”
Barnes doesn’t want to become a one-and-doner, the coach who takes a program to the Final Four once and never gets there again.