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Arizona wing Dwayne Aristode to enter NCAA transfer portal
More than half of Arizona’s scholarship players on its Final Four team were true freshmen, with three starting all season and two redshirting. Then there were the two in the middle, who are both headed elsewhere for their sophomore seasons. UA wing Dwayne Aristode is headed to the NCAA transfer portal, the second freshman to […]
Arizona softball comes out on the wrong end of pitchers’ duel at LSU
If the Arizona Wildcats could put it all together, they could be one of the best teams in the country. The offense has been carrying the team for most of the season. The pitching has been very solid the past two games only to have that offense disappear. This time it resulted in a 3-1 […]
New contract for Tommy Lloyd includes increased pay for assistants, larger buyout to take Big 12 opening
Tommy Lloyd will average $7.5 million during his 5-year contract extension, which is set to be approved this week by the Arizona Board of Regents. Lloyd, who agreed to the extension through the 2030-31 season last week, will earn $7.19 million in 2026-27, up from $5.1 million this past season when he led the Wildcats […]
Former Arizona guard Kamryn Kitchen commits to Coastal Carolina
Getting back to the Eastern U.S. was important to Arizona guard Kamryn Kitchen. A year spent out West as a Wildcat showed her that. She has accomplished her goal by committing to Coastal Carolina. Since Arizona women’s basketball wrapped up its season at the Big 12 Tournament, Kitchen has posted a lot of pictures of […]
SB Nation Reacts: Arizona men’s basketball fans not expecting too much regression
Fresh off its first Final Four appearance in 25 years, Arizona is now in the process of figuring out its roster for the 2026-27 season. To this point, not much news has come out regarding which Wildcats will be leaving the program and who they’ll be replaced with from the NCAA transfer portal, but it’s […]
Arizona baseball wins series opener at TCU
Before the season, Big 12 coaches predicted TCU would win the conference with Arizona finishing second. Neither team has lived up to those expectations so far, but for one night the Wildcats looked the part of a contender. The UA won 4-3 at TCU on Friday night in the opener of a 3-game series, only […]
Arizona softball’s bats go quiet at LSU
Typically, if the opponent scores just four runs, the Arizona Wildcats have a good chance of winning a softball game. After all, they came into Game 1 of a three-game series at LSU averaging a hair over eight runs per game. They could only scratch across one run in a 4-1 loss at Tiger Park […]
Arizona women’s basketball gets commitment from 2025 McDonald’s All-American Aliyahna ‘Puff’ Morris
Arizona Wildcats head coach Becky Burke posted several teases over the past two days. A comment about a “big dog” visiting, a partial view of a video shoot, and a post of a McDonald’s gif. Was it a current or past McDonald’s All-American visiting Arizona? The truth is known. Former California guard Aliyahna ‘Puff’ Morris […]
Arizona freshman Sidi Gueye to enter NCAA transfer portal
The 2026-27 roster has its first activity, but not on a good way. Freshman forward Sidi Gueye has entered the NCAA transfer portal, the first departure from Arizona’s Final Four team beyond those players out of eligibility. The 6-foot-10 Gueye appeared in 26 games for the Wildcats, averaging 1.3 points and 0.8 rebounds in 3.5 […]
Arizona women’s basketball portal needs for 2026-27
The portal has officially opened, and it’s not the only way for teams to improve their rosters for next season. As the recent commitment of Arynn Finley demonstrated, there are plenty of talented incoming freshmen floating around who decommitted from other programs. Arizona head coach Becky Burke is on the lookout across the ranks. She […]
Arizona football game vs. TCU moved to Friday night
Arizona’s run of playing at least one regular season game on a weeknight will continue. The Wildcats’ early November home game at Casino del Sol Stadium against TCU has been up a day, to Friday, Nov. 6. It marks the third consecutive season and ninth in the last 11 seasons the UA will play at […]
Arizona spring football: Wide receiver room in good spot with mix of returners and additions
Brent Brennan has said on many occasions that Arizona is returning a Heisman candidate quarterback in Noah Fifita this season. This means that Fifita needs to have similar types of receivers around him for the Heisman hopes to come true. The Wildcats bring back a good core of receivers that saw the field last season […]
Arizona softball hunts for resume-building wins during conference bye week
In the past, the No. 12 Arizona Wildcats might have spent their conference bye week at home playing mid-majors from the Western part of the country. The Pac-12 conference competition and early season tournaments like the Mary Nutter or Clearwater sufficed for RPI-building games. This year, they’re seeking those games in series or two-game schedules […]
Wildcats Wrap: Arizona men’s tennis clinches share of Big 12 championship
Editor’s note: With several sports going on, Wildcat Wrap serves as a recap that focuses on the Arizona programs that we do not have the time to cover on a regular basis but are certainly worthy of recognition. For a fifth straight season, the Arizona men’s tennis program has won a conference championship. The No. […]
Time running out for Arizona baseball as Big 12 season reaches midpoint
The only way Arizona is can make the NCAA Tournament is by winning the Big 12’s automatic bid, but that also requires the Wildcats qualifying for the conference tournament. Only 12 of 14 schools that sponsor baseball will make the Big 12 Tournament, set for next month in Surprise. And with six weekends left in […]
Arizona baseball run-rules New Mexico State ahead of tough road trip
With Wednesday marking the start of five games in a 6-day span, Arizona’s already overworked pitching staff is going to be pushed to the limit. Making it so those arms didn’t have to throw a full nine innings in the first contest was about the best possible outcome for the Wildcats. The UA used a […]
3-star 2028 edge Simote Tupou decommits from Arizona
Arizona’s 2028 recruiting class is back to a single commit. Three days after earning a pledge from 3-star offensive lineman Karmello Calloway, 3-star California edge rusher Simote Tupou announced he was reopening his recruitment. The 6-foot-1, 235-pound Tupou had committed to Arizona last July, picking the Wildcats over Cal, Colorado State, Hawaii, SMU and UNLV […]
Where Arizona men’s basketball ranks in way-too-early polls for 2026-27 season
Arizona men’s basketball’s roster for the 2026-27 season is to be determined, but college basketball media members and oddsmakers like the Wildcats’ chances of being among the sport’s best next year. Arizona is featured in the top 10 of many way-to0-early rankings for next season. Tommy Lloyd has delivered in each of his first five […]
Arizona softball continues climb in national polls
The human voters in the four top 25 polls were impressed by the Arizona Wildcats’ 2-1 record at Iowa State last week. The computers were less so. Arizona now hovers just outside the top 10 in the polls published by the NFCA (12), USA Softball (11), D1 Softball (12), and Softball America (12). It improved […]
Arizona spring football: Safeties looking to replace NFL-bound trio by committee
With Treydan Stukes, Dalton Johnson and Genesis Smith NFL-bound, Arizona now needs to find the replacements for the trio. To no one’s surprise, the staff went to the transfer portal to try and find replacements. The Wildcats brought in three safeties from the portal in Malcolm Hartzog Jr, Lee Mollette III and Cam Chapa. While […]
SB Nation Reacts: How will Arizona men’s basketball do next season?
It was a tremendous 2025-26 season for Arizona, which won a school-record 36 games while claiming Big 12 regular season and conference tournament titles and reaching the Final Four for the first time since 2001. Now what? Work is already underway on putting together the roster for next season, with plenty of holes to fill […]
Arizona men’s basketball ends year ranked No. 3 in AP poll
Arizona men’s basketball’s season ended short of the ultimate goal, but the team’s place among the best in program history was solidified again Tuesday in the final Associated Press poll of the season. Arizona is ranked No. 3 in the AP Top 25, behind national champion Michigan and runner-up UConn. Arizona spanned nearly the entire […]
Tracking offseason roster movement for Arizona men’s basketball
It was a heck of a 2025-26 season, with Arizona returning to the Final Four for the first time in 25 years. But thanks to the current setup in college basketball, each year brings with it a very different team for the Wildcats and almost every school in Division I thanks to graduation, the NBA […]
Iowa State ends Arizona softball’s 8-game winning streak with walk-off victory
No. 14 Arizona softball hadn’t lost a game since Friday, Mar. 20 when the Arizona State Sun Devils took the opening game of their three-games series. The Wildcats went on to win eight straight games and three Big 12 series since then. All that came to an end early Monday afternoon when the Iowa State […]
What’s next for Arizona men’s basketball after first Final Four appearance in 25 years
INDIANAPOLIS—When Lute Olson made his first Final Four with Arizona in 1988, in his fifth season at the school, it was another six years before he’d make it back. In between were annual NCAA Tournament appearances but never beyond the Sweet 16, and twice in a row his Wildcats were bounced in the first round. […]
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