SEATTLE - Life on the road in the Pac-12 continues this week for the Arizona Wildcats when they make the trek to the Pacific Northwest to take on Washington on Thursday. The 'Cats are still in search of their first road win of the season and are looking to stop a two-game skid against the Huskies.
GAME INFORMATION
Arizona at Washington
Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020
7:00 p.m. (MST) at Alaska Airlines Arena
TV: ESPN2 (Dave Pasch & Bill Walton)
Radio: Arizona IMG Radio Network (
Brian Jeffries & Reggie Geary)
OFF THE TOP
Under
Sean Miller, Arizona is 4-1 in the last five games played at Washington and seven of the eight meetings in Seattle under Miller have been decided by single digits.
Arizona ranks 10th in the latest NET ranking (best in Pac-12) and has a strength of schedule that ranks fourth.Â
UA is scoring 80.7 points per game this season, the 16th-most in the country this season and tops in the Pac-12. The Wildcats are also out-scoring teams by an average of 15.0 points per game, the eighth-best margin in the country, and would rank ninth in school history.
The Wildcats average of 16.5 assists per game ranks 17th nationally and the 1.37-to-1 assist/turnover ratio is 11th in the country. Those marks are also tops in the Pac-12.
Freshman forward
Zeke Nnaji is shooting 65.3 percent from the floor this year (ninth nationally). He enters today's game having posted a double-double in six of his last eight games and has eight for the season. On his way to earning his third freshman of the week honor last week, Nnaji averaged 18.0 points and 10.0 rebounds in wins against Utah (24p, 8r) and Colorado (12p, 12r). Against ASU, he tallied 21 points and 10 rebounds.
Freshman
Nico Mannion is second in the Pac-12 with 110 assists this season. His 5.8 assists per game are second in the Pac-12. He is just the eighth UA freshman to register 100 assists in a season, the first since Jerryd Bayless (2008). The UA freshman single-season assist record is 197 assists (Russell Brown, 1978). He is also averaging 5.0 rebounds in his last three games after averaging 2.0 over the first 15 games.
Freshman
Josh Green is averaging 10.2 points, 4.3 rebounds and 2.5 assists in Pac-12 play. Â He leads the team with 28 steals and ranks 11th in the Pac-12 in steals/game (1.5). The Sydney, Australia native also has 12 double figure scoring games to his credit, including three in conference play.
Since being inserted into the starting lineup the last three games, graduate transfer
Stone Gettings has seen his offensive production increase. He is averaging 6.0 points, 3.0 rebounds and shooting 58.3 percent from the floor - including 2-of-3 from the 3-point line.
Redshirt senior
Dylan Smith is averaging 9.7 points, 3.5 rebounds, 2.0 assists and shooting 42.9 percent from the 3-point line in Pac-12 play. He has 12 assists to 10 turnovers in conference play after posting 9 assists and 18 turnovers in non-conference play.