Bruce Pascoe
Reporter at Arizona Daily Star
Covering Arizona basketball, and assorted other topics, for the Arizona Daily Star
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1 week ago |
tucson.com | Bruce Pascoe
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Once USA Basketball trimmed to 18 finalists earlier this week, that’s when Arizona coach Tommy Lloyd really went to work.
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tucson.com | Bruce Pascoe
By the time he plays his first game for the Wildcats this fall, Koa Peat might have collected the most Arizona high school and junior national basketball accomplishments in history. Actually, he probably has already: Peat led Gilbert Perry High School to four state championships, has been named the Gatorade Arizona Player of the Year three times, and the Arizona Republic Male Athlete of the Year twice.
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tucson.com | Bruce Pascoe
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Back when Tommy Lloyd was developing into a shooting star at small-town Kelso High School in southwestern Washington, he’d sometimes make the 45-minute trip to Portland for a game. Some games, that is. Not the ones where Damon Stoudamire was known to play in. “I wasn’t good enough to play in the gyms that he was playing in,” Lloyd said.
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tucson.com | Bruce Pascoe
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Brandon McCoy already helped USA Basketball win two gold medals, including the U17 World Cup last summer, but he knows those carry little weight this week. Bumped up to the U19 training camp this summer, the highly rated Los Angeles guard and UA recruiting target is one of only seven rising high school seniors to be named among the 18 finalists.
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azcentral.com | Bruce Pascoe
The final 12-player roster will be chosen from 18 finalists before the FIBA U19 World Cup begins on June 28. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — USA Basketball sent 13 of the country’s best young players home on June 16, and it might be easy to pin that on Arizona coach Tommy Lloyd. He’s the head coach of USA’s U19 team, after all, and his preferred style of play is partly dictating how the final 12-player roster will ultimately be determined.
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Arizona will face Kansas, BYU and ASU twice in men's basketball next season, Big 12 announces. Brett Yormark said before last season that the conference would look at having UA and KU play twice bc interest in that matchup though 18 games means only three double play opponents.
Jaden Bradley is on NBA's early entry withdrawal list and Carter Bryant is not. So it's finally "official" what has long been expected. In all NBA says 50 players of 106 early entrants withdrew in time for the NCAA's May 28 deadline to return to college basketball.
Arizona's Dec. 20 game vs SDSU in Phoenix becomes the Wildcats' third game associated with Basketball Hall of Fame, along with Florida (Nov. 3 in Las Vegas) and UCLA (Nov. 14 in LA). Arizona won't play in a high-level MTE next season but instead has six top noncon games.
