Where do we go from here? No, seriously, this is kind of unfamiliar territory for the Arizona Wildcats.
A five-game losing streak, their longest since 1983, and no realistic hope of making the NCAA tournament—face it, this team doesn’t have what it takes to win three or four games in as many days next month—means Arizona’s 2018-19 season is more or less over.
Sure, there are at least eight more games left, but for all intents and purposes this one is in the books. It will go down as arguably the most disappointing season since the start of the Lute Olson era some 35 years ago, much worse than the 2009-10 and 2011-12 squads who will soon be adding the current one to the short (but growing) list of Arizona teams not to make the NCAA tourney.