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Nic Wise scored 30 points, including 16 of his team's final 19, to lead Arizona past Colorado 91-87 in overtime Tuesday in a consolation game at the Maui Invitational.

The Pac-10 meets the Big Ten tonight, as the Arizona Wildcats tangle with the Wisconsin Badgers in the first round of the Maui Invitational at the Lahaina Civic Center.

An 89-percent free-throw shooter at Pittsburgh, first-year UA coach Sean Miller delivered again this morning.

The Arizona Wildcats looked sloppy against the Rice Owls Thursday night. Despite winning 66-49 over the Owls, the Cats struggled to find a rhythm in their game.

Nic Wise had 15 points, seven assists and five steals and Jamelle Horne scored eight of his 13 in the final 5 1/2 minutes to help Arizona pull away from Rice 66-49 on Thursday night.

Of the five starters who opened Sean Miller's coaching tenure at Arizona, there's a pretty good chance one appreciated it just a little more than the others.

The Arizona Wildcats swingman grabbed a rebound with 8:12 remaining in the first half of Sunday's 87-70 rout of NAU, and sprinted down the floor, past his teammates and members of the Lumberjacks.

Miller was hired away from Xavier in April to replace interim coach Russ Pennell.

In order to establish a new culture for a new era that begins today, Sean Miller has spent the last month preaching to the Arizona Wildcats about things such as defense, rebounding, toughness, hard work and focus.

Sean Miller may land no other players in the fall signing period , but he locked up a missing piece today in Daniel Bejarano.

The Western New Mexico University men's basketball team was thinking upset against University of Arizona in Tucson, Ariz., on Tuesday night.

It wasn't a top 25 opponent, or a Division I opponent for that matter, but it didn't stop the Wildcats from gaining some much-needed confidence.

Once he started coaching Sean Miller as a freshman at Pittsburgh, Mark Coleman could see the point guard's future.

One by one these men in suits, these unfamiliar faces, take their seats on the home team's bench.

For months now, Sean Miller has been warning Arizona basketball fans that the Wildcats will be athletic and talented but also young and vulnerable.

Someday, Sean Miller says, the Arizona Wildcats will hopefully be able to look back on their defensive effort in the Red-Blue Game and chuckle.

UA's five freshmen made an introductory splash today in the Red-Blue Game before about 6,000 fans at McKale Center.

LOS ANGELES a ' One member of the crowd at Thursday's Pac-10 media day has a perspective on Arizona basketball that cannot be matched.

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.

The numbers could still look pretty daunting to Brendon Lavender. The Arizona Wildcats' sophomore guard from Mesa didn't play in seven games last season, averaged only 4.7 minutes in the rest, and now has more competition for playing time.