Chase Budinger News

The past few years have been a rough ride for Arizona men's basketball fans. From the lackluster last few years of the Lute Olson era, to the disastrous scream-and-fuss Kevin O'Neal era, to the overmatched-but-has-a-heart Russ Pennell era, Arizona had become a program of reputation and some talent, but nowhere near the dominance of old.

In his last two years at the University of Arizona, Chase Budinger would begin the season on NBA mock draft-lottery lists and tumble from there.

SALT LAKE CITY a ' Rookie Chase Budinger scored a career-high 17 points and was one of eight Houston players to score in double figures as the Rockets beat the Utah Jazz 113-96 on Monday night.

LOS ANGELES The best college basketball programs run like a conveyer belt, with new talent regularly arriving to replace what departs.

If Ray McCallum is impressed enough this weekend to become an Arizona Wildcat, the Michigan prep basketball star will face a potentially gut-wrenching conversation.

Sean Miller's back is to the wall again, and he still hasn't coached a game for the Arizona Wildcats.

There's a word association going on with Jamelle Horne these days, and it's not "fouls." Instead, "versatility" is what Arizona's second-most experienced basketball player says he keeps being told about, the many ways he might be able to help the young Wildcats this season.

Arizona has made 25 consecutive NCAA tournament appearances, the longest such current streak in the nation.

Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Great, Single Page It's an impressive mark that spans over two-and-a-half decades.

As delays go, Saturday night's wasn't too bad. The Wildcats have waited through three lightning delays at home in the past five years.

In it, Doug Gottlieb predicts the Wildcats to finish in sixth place but suggests they could make the NCAA tournament.

Knicks forward Jordan Hill's performance in the NBA Las Vegas Summer League paralleled the path most rookies take in their first NBA season.

David Bagga scanned the gym and saw something familiar: Fear. As shoes squeaked and balls bounced and grown men grunted and cursed and sweated, Bagga knew the question in the gut of every one of the 200 players trying out for a precious handful of the low-pay, high-potential spots in pro basketball's minor league, the Development League.

It was just three years ago that former Wildcat Chase Budinger shared the McDonald's All American MVP with Kevin Durant in his hometown of San Diego, Calif.

LAS VEGAS a ' Chase Budinger's first NBA game was over, but the lessons were not.

This is the fifth installment of a series of player-by-player look-backs at the 2008-2009 Wildcats basketball team.

When news spread that Michael Jackson had died last Thursday, it was destined to be a weird evening, even in the basketball world.

TUCSON, Ariz., June 25 -- The University of Arizona issued the following press release: University of Arizona men's basketball players Jordan Hill and Chase Budinger were selected in the 2009 NBA Draft, held Thursday at the WaMu Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

Former UA interim coach Russ Pennell claimed the Wildcats turned last season around in a close game at USC in mid-January, and maybe he was onto something.

Chase Budinger and Jordan Hill celebrated new UA coach Sean Miller's hiring in April, but won't be playing for him after leaving school early.