The Star's Bruce Pascoe breaks down the starting lineups, storylines and stats as the top-seeded Arizona Wildcats prepare to take on the No. 16-seeded Wright State Raiders in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on Friday.
What: No. 16 seed Wright State vs No. 1 seed Arizona , NCAA Tournament first-round gameSocial media: @TheWildcaster on Twitter / TheWildcaster on FacebookF Bennedict Mathurin F Tim Finke How they got here: Wright State went 15-7 in Horizon League play to finish in fourth place and then beat Oakland, Cleveland State and Northern Kentucky to win the Horizon League tournament.
The Raiders’ 22 wins come as no surprise. While they lost two-time Horizon League Player of the Year Loudon Love to professional basketball in Europe, they returned four starters, led by 6-6 junior Tanner Holden, who went from a conference all-freshman pick in 2019-20 to an all-conference pick the past two seasons. Big man Grant Basile is another focal point, a big man who can play either power forward or center.
The Raiders played only two high-major teams during the regular season, losing 96-52 at Purdue on Nov. 16 but beating North Carolina State 84-70 on Dec. 21 at Raleigh N.C. "Finke is a good shooter from the outside, plays extremely hard and tough defender and so he’s kind of a glue guy for their team. He does a little bit of everything.
“We'll see tomorrow what it looks like and it could be a deal where he may play but he may not start. We'll just take it from there and see where he's at.” Since he committed to the Wildcats in August 2017, Quinerly and the Wildcats have lived in completely different and ever-changing universes. “I’m obviously focused on my season but I’ve got family who goes to Arizona, so I’m kind of in the loop every now and then,” Quinerly said. “They’ve got a really good team this year. But other than that, I haven’t really been following Arizona like that.”The last time Arizona had a first-round NCAA Tournament game against a team coming off a First Four win, it didn’t work out so well.
Of course, today’s matchup is a lot different. Arizona was a No. 6 seed in 2016 and is a No. 1 seed this year, meaning the Wildcats won’t have to face an 11 seed but a No. 16 seed that Kenpom rates as the No. 175 overall team. “We'd love to play but it just hasn't worked out,” Wright State center Grant Basile said. “I'm not too sure the logistics of that. I know we all would love to play them. But I'm not sure.”
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