Five Salt Lake City memories to consider as UA opens in Utah

3. Arizona finagled a No. 1 seed to SLC in 2000 even though star center Loren Woods had missed the final six games of the regular season with a back injury and would not play. Arizona continued to list Woods as “game-to-game,” and the NCAA Selection Committee considered him part of the overall résumé. The Wildcats lost 66-59 to eighth-seeded Wisconsin in a round-of-32 game as an athletic Sudanese forward, Duany Duany, played effectively against Woods’ replacement, the 6-foot-8-inch Justin Wessel. 

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