Fans in the ZonaZoo raise their arms up during a free-throw attempt — part of the McKale Center experience.
Help win a game at McKale
Maybe you couldn’t play college basketball, but you’ve wrangled the city’s most precious ticket — to a men’s basketball game at McKale Center. Now what? Well, join 14,700 of your newest friends in trying to affect the outcome.
The Wildcats once won 71 straight games at McKale and have been victorious in over 83 percent of its games at the arena since it opened in 1973. All that stomping and screaming works, the numbers suggest. After Gonzaga’s Byron Wesley missed three free throws — airballing one of them — with 3.3 seconds left in a tense game on Dec. 6, senior Arizona guard T.J. McConnell knew whom to thank. “We have the best fans in the country and they just proved why.”
So soak in the celebration. High-five the stranger in the next seat. You’ve helped lift the Cats to another win and taken part in one of Tucson’s top experiences.
