If the NCAA chooses to reinstate Trier at the halfway point of this season, then he would return this weekend.
Arizona’s game Thursday with Utah will be its 16th of 32 scheduled games — if the Pac-12 Tournament is counted as one game, as it usually is. Saturday’s game against Colorado would be No. 17, or the Wildcats’ first after the midway point of their season.
But even if Trier is somehow cleared in time to play Thursday, Utah coach Larry Krystkowiak says he isn’t game-planning for the UA guard.
“He’s a great player, but there’s a lot of great players on their team,” Krystkowiak told reporters in Utah on Tuesday, according to the Salt Lake Tribune. “We don’t have any film we can watch of him this year. ... We wouldn’t find out probably until we were warming up anyway. It’s one of those things where you only have so much time in a week to try to get across to your guys, and that’s one that doesn’t make much sense to me.”
