Since he finally scooted over to Steve Fisherβs chair at San Diego State last April, Brian Dutcher has made it clear he doesnβt want things to change (except the win-loss record, of course).
One of those things that remains, the new Aztec boss hopes, will be the Arizona-SDSU series.
The Wildcats and Aztecs met 11 times over 13 seasons between 2002-03 and 2013-14 seasons, all involving Fisherβs clubs, while the last six came since Sean Miller has been coaching Arizona. But the teams havenβt met since 2014-15, a two-point UA win in the Maui Invitational.
βWe are trying to renew the series,β Dutcher told the Star, probably in 2019-20.
No agreement has been reached yet, and UA is mostly focused on the 2018-19 schedule now, but 2019-20 appears a good possibility. Miller prefers to play at least one strong Mountain West Conference team every season, and San Diego is not only an easy trip but also popular with UA fans in Tucson and Southern California alike.
The teams are unlikely to schedule each other in 2018-19 because they may meet anyway again in the 2018 Maui Invitational, while UA already has UNLV and New Mexico on this seasonβs schedule.
Millerβs Wildcats have won the past four games in the series after losing the first two during Millerβs two toughest seasons at Arizona: His first season of 2009-10 and the post-Derrick Williams season of 2011-12.
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