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Arizona Wildcats guard Jemarl Baker Jr., (10), Arizona Wildcats men's basketball vs. Long Beach St. 11/24/19 in Tucson, Ariz.Photo by Mike Christy / Arizona Athletics
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Wildcats To Spend Thanksgiving Weekend At Paycom Wooden Legacy

TUCSON, Ariz. - The 14th-ranked Arizona Wildcats head to Anaheim, Calif. to take part in the 8-team Paycom Wooden Legacy at the Anaheim Arena. The Wildcats open against Pepperdine on Thursday and will then play the winner/loser of UCF and Penn on Friday. The final round of the event takes place on Sunday. All games will be broadcast on the ESPN family of networks.

GAME INFORMATION
Paycom Wooden Legacy

Pepperdine vs. #14/14 Arizona
Thursday, Nov. 28
9:00 p.m. (MST) at the Anaheim Arena (Bracket)
TV: ESPN2 (Roxy Bernstein & Jon Crispin)
Radio: Arizona IMG Radio Network (Brian Jeffries & Ryan Hansen)
Satellite Radio: Sirius 84/XM 84/Internet 84


OFF THE TOP
Arizona is 100-8 (.926) in the last 108 games they have played in the McKale Center, tied for the third-fewest losses in the country. Arizona is also 53-1 in its last 54 non-conference home games. This season, Arizona is 6-0 at home.

Arizona has seven players on the roster from California, six of which are from southern California.

The Wildcats have won their first six games by an average of 30.3 points, the largest in the nation.

Arizona is shooting 52.2 percent overall from the field, which ranks ninth in the country. The Wildcats 41.2 percent from 3-point range ranks 18th in the country.

The 26 assists vs. Long Beach State are the most for Arizona since 2009.

The only team in the country to have four players who play at least 15 minutes per game and have a better than 2-to-1 assist-to-turnover ratio is...Arizona (Baker Jr., Mannion, Green, Hazzard).

Freshman forward Zeke Nnaji was named the Pac-12 Freshman of the Week for the first two weeks of the regular season. Nnaji is shooting 80.7 percent from the floor - #1 in the nation - and 80.6 percent at the free throw line - the only player in the country to eclipse 80 percent in both.

Each of the top six scorers this year for Arizona were not on the roster last year, and the top three scorers are freshmen.

Jemarl Baker Jr. leads the country in assist-to-turnover ratio (11:1). He is also shooting 55 percent (11-20) from the 3-point line.

Arizona has forced opponents to turn the ball over a total of 122 times, which is tied for 15th-most in the college basketball and the most ever by a Sean Miller coached team through the first six games of a season. UA also has a +8.2 advantage in turnover margin, the 8th-best in NCAA.

Josh Green has done a little bit of everything so far this year, including leading UA in steals (10)

The Arizona Wildcats have eight newcomers on the roster for the 2019-20 season, with four freshmen and four incoming transfers - two of which are grad transfers.

Pepperdine is 3-3 on the year and coming off a 77-72 loss to Sacramento State. Head coach Lorenzo Romar served as an assistant coach under Sean Miller at Arizona for the 2017-18 season.
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Players Mentioned

Jemarl Baker Jr.

#10 Jemarl Baker Jr.

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6' 4"
Redshirt Sophomore
Josh Green

#0 Josh Green

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6' 6"
Freshman
Zeke Nnaji

#22 Zeke Nnaji

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6' 11"
Freshman

Players Mentioned

Jemarl Baker Jr.

#10 Jemarl Baker Jr.

6' 4"
Redshirt Sophomore
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Josh Green

#0 Josh Green

6' 6"
Freshman
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Zeke Nnaji

#22 Zeke Nnaji

6' 11"
Freshman
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