Well after the Duke-Arizona game ended Friday night, it was unclear what the final score was. The paper version of the box score said the Blue Devils scored 69 points. So did the McKale Center scoreboard.
The online box said 70. Neither was the number that had UA fans freaking out. Michael Lev is a senior writer/columnist for the Arizona Daily Star , Tucson.
com and The Wildcaster . The host Wildcats scored only 55 points. It was their lowest total in a home game since Feb.
8, 2020, BTL — Before Tommy Lloyd. It was their lowest total in any game since the loss to Princeton in the 2023 NCAA Tournament. It was not what we’ve come to expect from a Lloyd-led team.
Lloyd is one of the premier offensive coordinators in college basketball. Since he came to Tucson, Arizona has finished third, sixth and third nationally in points per game. The Wildcats averaged more than 80 points each season.
Fifty-five? On that massive stage? In that amazing atmosphere? It doesn’t seem possible. But that’s exactly what happened on a night when the tall, deep, talented Blue Devils corralled the Cats — and Lloyd continued to struggle, as he put it, to “figure out why the pieces aren’t fitting together.” Arizona coach Tommy Lloyd screams out toward his team in the first half against Duke at McKale Center on Friday, Nov.
22, 2024. The 12th-ranked Blue Devils defeated the Wildcats 69-55. Arizona has several new players in its rotation.
Some holdovers have new responsibilities. It’s a pro.
