PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Arizona head coach Sean Miller harped and pleaded all season long about how his team needed to play better defensively or they wouldn’t go too far in this year’s tournament.
Turns out, he was right.
Arizona ran into a bit of, well, a Shocker, on Thursday night when No. 11 seed Wichita State upset the Wildcats 65-55 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament in Providence, Rhode Island.
Ron Baker and Fred VanVleet hounded Arizona’s guards all game. Gabe York and Kadeem Allen went a combined 7-of-16 from the field while also accounting for nine of Arizona’s 19 turnovers.