For Star subscribers: For 38 minutes Thursday, the Wildcats were speared, flopped and chipped and a few other things. They survived anyway.
Greg Hansen Each time Stanford seemed to need a basket Thursday, Cardinal assistant coach Adam Cohen quickly used code, relaying strategy to the Pac-12’s ninth-seeded team with a few simple words on a whiteboard:Arizona never truly cracked the code. Almost everything Stanford tried worked. And almost every Wildcat fan at T-Mobile Arena summoned grim memories of similar, everything-that-could-go-wrong-did-go-wrong games in March.
"To overcome a performance like that in a game like this is pretty special," Arizona coach Tommy Lloyd said after an exercise in survival, an 84-80 victory."Their whole team rose to the occasion." For Arizona, it was an escape like few in March. Usually a “You're the man" performance sends you home. But not this time for one reason: Koloko also played the best game of his career, with an unprecedented high of 24 points, with a best-ever shooting game, 10 for 12.
It was just the fourth time in 32 games that the Wildcats experienced anxiety in the final two or three minutes. It lost at Tennessee 77-73, beat Wichita State 82-78 in overtime, held on to beat Oregon 84-81 and persevered to win at Illinois, 83-79.Lloyd, for one, didn’t seem to mind the challenge.
"It was really cool to see the guys execute the game plan to the best of their ability," said Haase. Wisely, he gave Jones the green light. Arizona didn’t have all the answers Thursday, but it didn’t need to. That’s how it works now. It’s survive and advance — learn what you need to do to improve — rather than stock up style points.
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