UA's second-round picks have enjoyed NBA success
When Arizona played in the 1988 Final Four, it had notched just a single first-round draft pick in NBA history, power forward Larry Demic in 1979. (Leon Wood, who played just one UA season and transferred to Cal State-Fullerton, doesn’t count). Since then Arizona has had 19 first-round picks. UCLA has had 17, Stanford 11 and ASU three. But what makes the UA draft success more dynamic is the extended careers of its second-round draft picks, like Jud Buechler, Gilbert Arenas, Sean Rooks, Tom Tolbert, Luke Walton and Steve Kerr, to name a few.
