Former UA basketball assistant Scott Thompson poses for a photo in 2005. Photo by Benjie Sanders / Arizona Daily Star

 Benjie Sanders / Arizona Daily Star

The radio analyst for Arizona’s Saturday game at Missouri wasΒ Scott Thompson, part ofΒ Lute Olson’s first Arizona coaching staff and a key part of Olson’s 1986 World Championship staff. Thompson was then head coach at Rice, Wichita State and Cornell before returning to Tucson for nine years as a fundraiser for the UMC Cancer Center. He is now a fundraiser at the University of Florida.Β 

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