PULLMAN, Wash. – Following a home sweep of Utah and Colorado, the Arizona Wildcats will set out for their second consecutive extended road trip to the Washington schools. UA opens the week at Washington State with an 8 p.m. (MST) meeting on Wednesday night on the Pac-12 Networks.

No. 9/9 Arizona at Washington State
Wednesday, Jan. 31 at 8 p.m. (MST)
TV: Pac-12 Network (Roxy Bernstein and PJ Carlesimo)
Radio: Arizona IMG Radio Network (Brian Jeffries & Jeff Dean)
Twitter: @APlayersProgram
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The Wildcats head to the Pacific Northwest as one of the hottest teams in America with 15 wins in their last 16 games. Saint Mary's and Purdue are the only programs in the nation with fewer losses than Arizona since Dec. 1.

UA faces Washington State following a home sweep of the Mountain schools last week. The pair of wins was capped by Arizona's thrilling 74-73 victory over Utah. Senior Dusan Ristic set a new career high with 23 points in the win, aiding his team to its 64.4 percent shooting mark from the field for the game. The 7-footer buried a trio of three-pointers en route to his 23 points after connecting on eight of 20 attempts from deep in his previous 127 career appearances.

Dusan Ristic is your reigning Pac-12 Player of the Week following his big week in a pair of wins over Colorado and Utah in Tucson. Ristic averaged 19.0 points and 7.5 rebounds per game while shooting an incredible 84.2 percent from the floor (16 of 19). He is the third different Wildcat to win the award, joining Allonzo Trier and Deandre Ayton who won it twice.

Arizona makes its way to Pullman, Wash. as the Pac-12's best road team since the conference grew from 10 to 12 programs. The Cats' Pac-12 road record of 38-20 (.655) is the best in the league since the start of the start of the 2010-11 season.

Junior Allonzo Trier has spent his 2017-18 season among the Pac-12's leaders in field goal percentage from his guard position. Trier's efficiency inside the arc has led him to an impressive two-point field goal percentage of 65.6 percent. That mark ranks third in the conference and makes Trier the only player shorter than 6-feet-7-inches to rank in the top 10 of the Pac-12 in two-point field goal percentage, according to KenPom.com.

The Wildcats have won 12 consecutive meetings versus Washington State, which is the second longest active winning streak between Pac-12 schools behind Arizona's 16 straight wins against Stanford. The current run of 12 victories in a row is also the second longest win streak in the head-to-head series, trailing UA's 38 consecutive wins over WSU from 1986 to 2004.

Dusan Ristic's career night in Saturday's win versus Utah also saw him surpass 1,000 points in his career, which made him the 52^nd Wildcat to achieve the feat. With over 1,000 points and 500 rebounds, Ristic also became the 28^th player in program history to eclipse the 1,000-500 mark.

Some of the best basketball of Parker Jackson-Cartwright's career has come against WSU. PJC's 10.0 points per game average in four career games versus the Cougars is his highest career scoring average against any Pac-12 program by a sizeable margin. His next highest career scoring average versus a conference foe is 6.6 points per game versus UCLA. The double-digit scoring average versus Washington State is fueled by the Los Angeles native's seven of nine (.778) shooting from deep.

Allonzo Trier set a career high with a dozen rebounds (all defensive) in his team's last game versus Washington State on Feb. 16, 2017. They were the most defensive rebounds by a UA guard in the Sean Miller era (2009-10 to present), eclipsing Kyle Fogg's 11 defensive rebounds versus USC on Feb. 23, 2012.