The wait is over.
Roughly seven months after being tabbed to take over the program, the Tommy Lloyd era begins at Arizona on Tuesday night when the Wildcats host NAU at McKale Center.
The UA, which was picked to finish fifth in the Pac-12 and begins the season unranked in both the Associated Press and coaches polls, has not lost a regular-season opener since falling 93-90 at Virginia to open the 2006-07 campaign.
Here’s what to keep an eye out for on Tuesday night:
Who plays, and how much?
Lloyd all but confirmed that Arizona will go with the same starting five—Kerr Kriisa, Bennedict Mathurin and Dalen Terry in the frontcourt, with Azuolas Tubelis and Christian Koloko in the frontcourt—that he used to begin the exhibition against Eastern New Mexico.