Arizona Vs Wisconsin 🏀 Game Preview/Discussion Thread 12/9/23 At 115pm ESPN

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Arizona Vs Wisconsin 🏀 Game Preview/Discussion Thread 12/9/23 At 115pm ESPN

Playing its first game as the No. 1 team in the country, the Arizona Wildcats will play host to No. 23 Wisconsin Badgers at the McKale Center on Saturday, with tip-off scheduled for 1:15 p.m. MST on ESPN with Dave Pasch and Jay Bilas. The Wildcats have started the season 7-0 and have two wins over Top 25 opponents on their ledger already this season while the Badgers are 7-2 and have won six games in a row.

Wisconsin Just Continues to Win
Wisconsin has found a whole lot of success heading into this game and they have had some big wins this season. Just two games ago they beat Marquette 75-64 and in the last game against Michigan State they won 70-57. AJ Storr was the top player for Wisconsin in the last game putting up 22 points and five rebounds. Wisconsin is averaging 73.6 points while their defense is giving up 63.1 points per game. AJ Storr has been the top player averaging 14.2 points while shooting 42.7 percent from the field.

Another Test for Arizona
Arizona hasn't played the toughest schedule but they do have wins already over Duke Blue Devils and Michigan State. In the last game against Colgate, Arizona scored 82 points but even better was the defense giving up only 55 points. Caleb Love did have a strong game scoring 14 points, eight rebounds, and three assists. Arizona on the season is averaging 93.4 points while their defense is giving up 62.6 points per game. In this game the defense is going to need to step up in a big way to put the pressure on Wisconsin. On the season Love is averaging 13.3 points while shooting 39.5 percent from the field.

STARTING FIVE
1) For the first time in the Tommy Lloyd era, Arizona is ranked No. 1 in the AP Top 25 this week. Overall, it's the 38th week in program history being at the top spot and the first time since January of 2014.

2) Since arriving at Arizona prior to the 2021-22 season, Tommy Lloyd is 13-4 against AP Top 25 teams, the best winning percentage (.765) in the country.

3) Caleb Love has an assist-to-turnover ratio of 2.38 this season, easily ahead of his career ratio of 1.28. He also leads the team in scoring (13.3), assist (31) and steals (11).

4) Sophomore guard Kylan Boswell ranks fourth in the country in 3FG%, connecting at a 54.3% clip so far this season. He's a 43.8% 3FG shooter for his career (42 games).

5) Arizona leads the country in rebound margin (+19.1 per game), is second in scoring margin (+30.9), third in scoring (93.4) and fourth in assists per game (21.0).


SERIES VS. WISCONSIN

• Wisconsin leads the all-time series, 5-2, with the last meeting coming in the Elite Eight of the NCAA Touranment, a 85-78 Wisconsin win in Los Angeles on March 28, 2015.

•  Lloyd was part of the Gonzaga coaching staff that beat Wisconsin, 74-61, on Nov. 24, 2009.

• This will be the first visit to Tucson for the Badgers. Arizona will make the return trip to Madison on Nov. 15, 2024.

• According to KenPom, Arizona plays at the 5th-fastest tempo in the country while Wisconsin's tempo ranks 343.

BDU's Free Pick
Arizona is the #1 team in the country for a reason and I think they are going take care of business at home. Wisconsin beat a very good Marquette team by nine points, and they are going to find success again here. Wisconsin's defense is going to step up and slowdown the Arizona offense and that is going to be the difference here as Wisconsin is going to get the job done. Wildcats win, but Wisconsin covers the spread here.



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Arizona is favored at -8.5 and the Over/Under is 145.5

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[Keithjacksontucson]

Probably will be our toughest game of the year so far. Wisconsin will play their asses off since we're number one. Hard to get players ready for the kind of play we'll see in the first half. All shots will fall, terrifying defense. Cats could wind of behind by a lot and have to climb back into it

[WerderBremen]

The game is on ESPN, not FS1

[Deb]

Will the McKale crowd remember just what we owe Wisky? They better show up big time for our guys on Sat.

Please, no more tall white dudes going off on us raining threes. Getting smoked by a Sam and a Frank was enough.

Bear Down boys, smash em for some payback!

[KansasCityCats]

Nick Johnson's "charge" is still the worst call in the history of college basketball.  Screw the flopping badgers.

[TucsonTruckStop]

Will the McKale crowd remember just what we owe Wisky? They better show up big time for our guys on Sat.

Please, no more tall white dudes going off on us raining threes. Getting smoked by a Sam and a Frank was enough.

Bear Down boys, smash em for some payback!

Yes, they have a white Center that can hit 3's unfortunately.

[Cactus🌵Cat]

The line on this game will be very close to Arizona -6.5 imo

[1388Joe]

I was impressed with his 3 point effectiveness. Overall... he appears to not be very quick or athletic. He poses a threat in shaking up opposing defenses. Wisconsin has some bright spots in their guard play. They take care of the ball. I noticed that they have a tendency to play hero ball when pressed hard on defense. Oh and good grief they travel A LOT. That's not going to favor them like it did against MSU.

Will the McKale crowd remember just what we owe Wisky? They better show up big time for our guys on Sat.

Please, no more tall white dudes going off on us raining threes. Getting smoked by a Sam and a Frank was enough.

Bear Down boys, smash em for some payback!

Yes, they have a white Center that can hit 3's unfortunately.

Will the McKale crowd remember just what we owe Wisky? They better show up big time for our guys on Sat.

Please, no more tall white dudes going off on us raining threes. Getting smoked by a Sam and a Frank was enough.

Bear Down boys, smash em for some payback!

Yes, they have a white Center that can hit 3's unfortunately.

Will the McKale crowd remember just what we owe Wisky? They better show up big time for our guys on Sat.

Please, no more tall white dudes going off on us raining threes. Getting smoked by a Sam and a Frank was enough.

Bear Down boys, smash em for some payback!

Yes, they have a white Center that can hit 3's unfortunately.

[arxpert]

It's up to those who sit on their iron thrones aka the best seats in the house to show up ON TIME and create a hostile atmosphere. People who witnessed the 2 years of Wisconsin barely scraping by us in the Dance may have long passed their seats down to next of kin via back room dealings and Trusts may not be with us anymore.

I call to action, any and all who will take up vocal arms and be the force that shatters the dreams of everyone who comes hunting the #1 Ranked Team in all the land.

Fin.

[Wildcat Dad]

Wisconsin podcast. One guy thinks they win 78-67, the other guy predicts a 10 point ARIZONA win.

They think they can out rebound the Cats slow us down. We'll see. 

 https://player.fm/series/the-bucky-report/wisconsin-badgers-vs-arizona-wildcats-3-big-things