Despite keeping their head above water last season, there’s likely no team that wants to move on from the tumultuous nature of the 2018-2019 campaign that Arizona.
The NCAA FBI scandal was essentially headquartered in Tucson, where assistant coach Emanuel “Book” Richardson kept the Wildcats in the headlines for all the wrong reasons. It didn’t help that the fallout from the off-the-court noise translated down onto the floor, as Arizona posted head coach Sean Miller’s worst campaign with the Wildcats since his first year in the desert.
Whether it was distractions, injuries or missteps from the team, last year lived up to the billing as a year that couldn’t be finished soon enough for the Wildcats.