Back in the fall of 2003, a Serbian big man named Ivan Radenovic stayed largely under the recruiting radar — until he signed up for the spring semester at UA and put on a Wildcat uniform for the rest of the 2003-04 season.
With only seven healthy scholarship guys as of earlier this week, UA coach Sean Miller might be tempted to make a similar move when the fall semester ends next month. But Miller said doing so would be tough because it would mean inserting a new player in with those who have had 50 practices and a full nonconference season under their belt already.
“That’s a hard one,” Miller said. “I’m not saying ‘no’ because you never know, but we’re not really looking at that. If we were to add a transfer it would probably be somebody sitting out like Dylan (Smith, a transfer from UNC Asheville) is doing for us right now.”
And even though there was a small chance 2017 signee Ira Lee could graduate in time to enroll this spring — either to play for the Wildcats or to continue his rehabilitation from a shoulder injury at UA — Miller said Lee would finish his senior season at Crossroads School in Santa Monica. Lee is expected to be fully cleared soon, Miller said, and begin playing for Crossroads.
