Arizona Basketball 2025-2026 - Tommy's Best Team?

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Feel sorry for Kharchenkiv parents at the stadium to watch. He has the worse game all year, don't let them watch again
 
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Arizona breaks teams. Big XII teams are 4-12 after playing Arizona.

Imagine ASU's overall basketball record had it never been UofA's traveling partner in the Pac-12. I surmise that teams that play Arizona/ASU back-to-back are either looking ahead to UofA when they play ASU or exhaust all of their energy playing and preparing for UofA.

Same thing's happening now. 5 of ASU's 7 conference wins have come right after the competition just played UofA
 
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I hope Tommy does not play the starters for the Big-12 tournament, since it's meaningless for them
 

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I hope Tommy does not play the starters for the Big-12 tournament, since it's meaningless for them
In a postgame interview after clinching the Big 12 regular season title, Tommy responded to a similar question by saying they only play to win. Maybe it was coach speak but it didn't come across that way to me.
 

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Play like crap for over half the game and win by 22.
I'd say "shoot" like crap more than play like crap but yeah, that was a blowout that didn't feel like one. I've never seen this team miss so many layups, putbacks and short/mid-range shots. When UCF cut it to 12 and we kept missing FT after FT, I'm sure a lot of fans were concerned probably till that momentum changing 3 by Burries.
 

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Weird no fans behind the backboards. Might of had an effect
I think it was Burries when asked about the court in the postgame interview, said it was no problem but he had a little trouble with the led lights when shooting free throws. I don't know if that's the cause of so many misses but it sounds plausible.
 
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Gonna be a de facto home game for ISU tomorrow. Like when we played in Vegas
 
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