Top high school prospects now play recruiting showcase games anywhere from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. throughout the spring and summer, so maybe that will pay off for the Arizona Wildcats in a week when they have Wednesday’s 9 p.m. tipoff sandwiched between 10 a.m. starts against Missouri and Texas A&M.
Maybe, it will even help sometime next spring, too.
“I think that’s all part of the path of a college basketball season,” UA coach Sean Miller said. “For a coaching staff and players you have to adjust to those odd times. The NCAA Tournament can present that to you. You have that early start in the East and Midwest; you’ve done all this work and it’s very, very difficult tournament to be in be in and you want to have the best chance to advance.”
Miller said UA players had a 6:30 a.m. (Arizona time) pregame breakfast on Saturday at Missouri, and they’ll probably have the same thing this Saturday in Houston before facing Texas A&M.
“Some teams maybe have that as an excuse,” Miller said. “We did it.”
