Arizona's Sean Rooks in action against East Tennessee State during the NCAA Tournament in Atlanta, March 20, 1992. Photo by David Sanders / Arizona Daily Star

Arizona's most distant first-round NCAA venues 

3. Atlanta, as the No. 3 seed in 1992. Hard to imagine a No. 3 seed from the Pac-12 getting shipped to Georgia now, but 24 years ago the Wildcats hit the road and the road — and much-too-athletic East Tennessee State — smacked them in the first round, 87-80. 


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