Arizona's Michael Wright signals UA is No. 1 after winning the Pac-10 against Stanford in 2001. Photo by David Sanders / Arizona Daily Star

Trailing No. 1 Stanford 75-74 with three seconds to play, Olson and Mike Montgomery called three timeouts before Arizona would inbound the ball. An entry pass to center Loren Woods was quickly shuffled to power forward Wright, who hit the game-winner from about 3 feet. Arizona reached the Final Four 23 days later. 


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