PULLMAN, Wash. - Following a thrilling 75-72 win at Washington on Thursday, the Arizona will look to make it back-to-back road wins on Saturday at Washington State. Arizona has won the last seven meetings with the Cougars in Pullman.
GAME INFORMATION
Arizona at Washington State
Saturday, Feb. 1, 2020
6:00 p.m. (MST) at Beasley Coliseum
TV: Pac-12 Networks (JB Long and Matt Muehlebach)
Radio: Arizona IMG Radio Network (Brian Jeffries & Ryan Hansen)
OFF THE TOP
Arizona enters Saturday's game at WSU looking for back-to-back road wins after snapping a 5-game road losing streak on Thursday at Washington. It was also the first road win of the season for the 'Cats.
Arizona ranks 11th in the latest NET ranking (best in Pac-12) and has a strength of schedule that ranks fifth.Â
UA is scoring 80.5 points per game this season, the 15th-most in the country this season and tops in the Pac-12. The Wildcats are also out-scoring teams by an average of 14.4 points per game, the eighth-best margin in the country, and would rank ninth in school history. The scoring margin is just 7.0 in Pac-12 play.
The Wildcats average of 16.5 assists per game ranks 14th nationally and the 1.38-to-1 assist/turnover ratio is 10th in the country. Those marks are also tops in the Pac-12.
The Arizona bench players were a combined +22 at Washington while the starting five were a combined -7.
Freshman forward
Zeke Nnaji is shooting 63.6 percent from the floor this year (ninth nationally). He enters today's game having posted a double-double in six of his last nine games and has eight for the season. The three-time Pac-12 Freshman of the Week dropped 21p, 10r at ASU. Against Washington, he battled first half foul trouble - playing jus 7 minutes - to finish with nine points, eight rebounds.
Freshman
Nico Mannion is second in the Pac-12 with 115 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 four games after averaging 2.0 over the first 15 games.
Freshman
Josh Green leads the team with 31 steals and ranks eighth in the Pac-12 in steals/game (1.6). He has recorded 2+ steals in 10 games this season
Since being inserted into the starting lineup the last four games, graduate transfer
Stone Gettings has seen his offensive production increase. He is averaging 7.8 points, 3.0 rebounds and shooting 57.1 percent. He matched his season high with 13 points at Washington.
Redshirt sophomore
Jemarl Baker Jr. has played 79 consecutive minutes without committing a turnover, and he has 13 assists in that time period. His 3-point FG with 44 seconds left proved to be the game-winner at Washington as he finished with a career-high 17 points in the win.
Mannion (85.5), Nnaji (79.5) and Green (79.4) all rank in the top 10 in the Pac-12 in FT%.
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