Arizona Basketball Tickets & 2024 Schedule
The Arizona Wildcats Men's basketball team rank among the most dominate college basketball teams on the West Coast. The fielded their first team back in 1904 and came to dominance in the 1980's under former Head Coach Lute Olson. Those decades of success have generated an enormous fan base for the Cats, and anyone who has ever attended an Arizona game will tell you their fans will pack the arena.
Those Arizona Wildcats fans are ready to Bear Down in the upcoming season as the team once again looks to be a strong contender. The Wildcats have been the class of the Pac 12 conference in men's basketball and again looked poised to compete for the #1 seed in the Pac-12 Basketball Tournament in Las Vegas and a high seed for the NCAA Tourney. First Arizona will need to take care of business in their conference, which sports some of the best college basketball teams in the country.
The Cats toughest conference opponents should be their match-up against the UCLA Bruins. Arizona and UCLA are the two top Power 5 college basketball programs on the West Coast. While they have plenty of competition in the Pac-12, his intense rivalry has become one of the better games in college basketball as both teams are consistently near the top of the college ranks. Arizona and UCLA are often fighting for a conference championship which has only added fuel to this match-up. This game has become one that players and fans circle on their calendars in anticipation for another classic battle. The Wildcats other notable rivalry is theirs with ASU. Arizona vs Arizona State is a bitter in-state rivalry continues to grow as one of the more heated match-ups in college basketball. The Cats and Sun Devils compete on a yearly basis for the right to claim the best basketball team in the state.