CLOSTER -- Jack Murphy, a student manager for the Arizona Wildcats men's basketball team in the late 90s and early 2000s, remembers Michael Wright as one of the hardest-working members of a talent-rich team.
The 6-foot-8 bruiser liked going to the movies and the other things most college kids do, but Wright's focus was almost singularly on basketball.
He spent many nights at the team practice facility shooting or doing extra workouts. Afterward, he'd come up to the athletic office and hang out with Murphy and other student managers and assistants late into the night.