PALO ALTO, Calif. -- The Arizona Wildcats opened Pac-12 play last weekend with a pair of wins at McKale Center, and will now hit the road for their first two conference road games at Stanford and California.
The Stanford matchup is set for a 9:10 p.m., tip-off at Maples Pavilion. The Pac-12 Network will have the broadcast with Ted Robinson, Don MacLean and Jill Savage have the call.
Arizona at Stanford
Wednesday, Jan. 9 at 9 p.m. (MST)
TV: Pac-12 Network (Ted Robinson, Don MacLean, Jill Savage)
Radio: Arizona IMG Radio Network (Brian Jeffries & Ryan Hansen)
Twitter: @APlayersProgram
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OFF THE TOP
- Arizona will head to the Bay Area for its first Pac-12 trip of the season. The Cats open with Stanford on Wednesday night, before traveling to Cal to take on the Golden Bears on Saturday.
- The Wildcats have won 17 straight games against Stanford dating back to 2009. Arizona's last lost to Stanford came on Jan. 4, 2009 in Palo Alto.
- Arizona has started 2-0 in Pac-12 play for the sixth time in the past seven seasons.
- Following Wednesday's game at Stanford, Arizona will join Gonzaga and Mississippi Valley State as the only programs in the country to have played at least one game in five different time zones. The Cats have played in the Maui Invitational, at Connecticut, at Alabama and will play its first game in the Pacific Time Zone on Wednesday. Tucson is in the Mountain Standard Time Zone.
- Under Coach Sean Miller, Arizona is 123-41 in Pac-12 play. His .748 winning percentage is the third-best all-time in the conference for coaches with a minimum of six seasons in the Pac-12. The Wildcats are 50-31 (.617) in Pac-12 road games under Miller.
- Sophomore Brandon Randolph scored 21 points in Saturday's overtime win over Utah. He has scored in double figures in all 15 games this season, joining Kris Wilkes (UCLA) and Tres Tinkle (Oregon State) as the only players in the Pac-12 to have scored in double figures in each of their team's games this season.
- Randolph leads the Pac-12 in free throw shooting at .902.
- Redshirt junior Chase Jeter tied his career high with 21 points Saturday and established new career highs in rebounds (13) minutes (39) and assists (4).
- Jeter is second in the Pac-12 in field goal percentage at .650.
JETER STRONG FROM THE FLOOR
Chase Jeter arrived at Arizona prior to the 2017-18 season after transferring from Duke, but had to sit out the season per NCAA rules. In his first 15 games as a Wildcat, Jeter has been a presence in the paint and a threat down low. Jeter is averaging 13.0 points per game and 7.5 rebounds a contest with four double-doubles. Jeter is shooting 65 percent from the floor, having connected on 78 of 120 shot attempts. He entered Pac-12 play with a percentage of 65.7, which is the best by any Arizona player in pre-conference play since Jordan Hill also shot 65.7 percent on 99 attempts in 2007. Jeter has scored in double figures in 11 of the 15 games. Jeter had one of the finest games of his career in Saturday's overtime win over Utah. The junior tied his career high with 21 points, and established new career highs in rebounds (13) and assists (4). He also played a career-high 39 minutes against the Utes. In the final non-conference game of the season, Jeter posted 16 points and five rebounds in a two-point win over UC Davis. The game prior, against Montana, Jeter had 21 points on 9 of 15 shooting. He knocked in three of four free throws and added six rebounds. He registered a then career-high 19 points against Alabama and grabbed nine rebounds, missing a double-double by one board.
CHASE IN CHARGE
Not only has
Chase Jeter been productive scoring and rebounding, he's also been Arizona's top charge-getter this season. A play Coach
Sean Miller values as much as any in basketball, Jeter has taken 19 charges in 15 games this season. Jeter took four charges in the finale in Maui against Auburn. Jeter had taken at least one charge in every game this season, until the Montana game. He also has at least two charges in four of the 15 games. Jeter has taken more than half of Arizona's charges this season. As a team, the Wildcats have drawn 37 charges, with Jeter drawing 19.
A LOOK AT ARIZONA'S STREAKS
Not only does Arizona have the longest intra-conference winning in the Pac-12 with 17 consecutive wins versus Stanford, but UA owns the top two active head-to-head winning streaks within the Pac-12 Conference.
1. Arizona over Stanford 17 consecutive wins
2. Arizona over Washington St. 13 consecutive wins
3. Colorado over Stanford 9 consecutive wins
Utah over Washington St. 9 consecutive wins
5. Oregon over Arizona St. 8 consecutive wins
RANDOLPH'S IMPROVEMENT
Sophomore
Brandon Randolph has started his sophomore season in style. Randolph has scored in double figures in all 15 games this season and is averaging a team-leading 16.5 points per game. He's one of three players in the Pac-12 to have scored in double figures in each of his team's games this season, joining Tres Tinkle (Oregon State) and Kris Wilkes (UCLA). As a freshman last season, Randolph played in 31 games, drawing four starting assignments. He averaged 3.7 points per game, scoring a total of 116 points. Randolph's scoring increase of 12.8 points per game is the biggest of any player in a Power 5 Conference. Jordan Nwora from Louisville is second with an increase of 12.2. It's also the largest increase from one season to the next by any Arizona player since at least 1977. The previous best was a a 12-point increase by Khalid Reeves in 1993-94. Randolph has also surpassed his rebounding total as a freshman. He had 26 rebounds last season and already has 47 this year. Randolph is the first Arizona guard to score in double figures in each of the first 15 games of the season since Hassan Adams in 2005-06. He's the first Wildcat, regardless of position, to score in double figures in the first 15 games since Derrick Williams in 2010-11.
GETTING HOT FROM 3
A pair of upperclassmen have given Arizona a lift from deep over the past three games. Combined, senior
Ryan Luther and
Dylan Smith have connected on 10 of their last 16 3-point attempts. Luther is 5 for his last 6 over the past three games, while Smith is 5 of 10. Smith is actually 5 of his last 8 in the past two games after going 0 for 2 from 3-point range against UC Davis in the non-conference finale. In two conference games, Smith is averaging nine poitns per game with his 5 of 8 shooting from deep. Luther connected on three of four 3-point attempts in last weekend's conference games and hit two big 3s in the second half of Arizona's 84-81 overtime win over Utah.
DOUTRIVE DOES IT
Freshman
Devonaire Doutrive saw extended action in Arizona's Pac-12 opener Thursday versus Colorado. Doutrive played a career-high 12 minutes, scoring 8 points and grabbing four rebounds. He had three offensive rebounds and was 2 of 2 from the free throw line. The Cats were plus-11 when Doutrive was in the game, the highest mark of any Wildcat against the Buffs. Doutrive played more than 10 minutes in just one of Arizona's 13 non-conference games. Doutrive followed that up against Utah with two points and an offensive rebound in six minutes. He has four offensive rebounds in his last 16 minutes played.
BRANDON FIVE-ZERO
Freshman
Brandon Williams entered conference play with exactly 50 assists in 13 games. He's the first Arizona player to have 50 or more assists in pre-conference play since Jason Gardner posted 73 assists in 1999, before opening conference play. Williams is the only freshman in the Pac-12 this season to have 50 or more assists on the season and has 59 after a six-assist performance in the Pac-12 opener versus Colorado and three more dimes against Utah. The freshman has 59 assists to just 23 turnovers and is the team's third-leading scorer at 11.2 points per game. Williams has especially excelled in eight games at McKale Center, where he has 46 assists to just 10 turnovers.