Arizona entered its showdown with UW in the midst of a very bad couple of weeks. The Wildcats had lost four of five, including blowout losses to both LA schools on the road last week. The school is in the process of firing one of Sean Miller’s assistants for an academic fraud issue, a scandal that is somehow unrelated to the FBI’s probe into the school’s recruiting. On top of that, point guard Brandon Williams injured his knee and remains unavailable.
Was a matchup with the red-hot, conference-leading Huskies the cure for what ailed Arizona? In a word, no.