TUCSON, Ariz. - No. 11 Arizona looks to stay at the top of the Pac-12 Conference standings as the back half of the conference season gets underway when Stanford pays a visit to the McKale Center on Sunday. The game is scheduled to start at 6:00 p.m. MST on FS1 with Jordan Kent and Casey Jacobsen on the call.
STARTING FIVE
1) Arizona is one of two teams in the country to have seven different players with 20 or more steals this season (James Madison).
2) Tommy Lloyd is 43-2 at McKale Center as the head coach of Arizona (11-0 this year). That .956 winning percentage is the best home winning percentage in the country over that span.
3) Oumar Ballo was 8 of 8 from the floor vs. Cal on his way to 22 points, 13 rebounds. He's the only Wildcat to have multiple games scoring 20+ points and not miss a shot from the floor since 1996-97 - he's done it three times. It was his fourth career 20/10 game.
4) Senior Caleb Love leads the Pac-12 in scoring in conference play at 21.7 ppg. He's scored in double figures in 20 out of 21 games this season, including 11 games of 20+ points.
5) Today's game is officially a sellout, the fifth in a row and the seventh this season. Arizona has led the Pac-12 in attendance each of the last 39 seasons and is on pace this season.
SERIES VS. STANFORD
• Arizona leads the all-time series against Stanford, 72-33
• The Wildcats have won 14 of the last 16 meetings in Tucson
NOTING THE WILDCATS
• In five Pac-12 home games this season, Arizona is outscoring opponents, 87.8 to 65.2 while shooting 38.6% from the 3-point line while holding opponents to 29.7%.
• Love was also named to the Naismith Trophy and Wooden Award Top 20 Watch Lists and is one of 10 players still in the running for the Jerry West Shooting Guard of the Year award.
• Keshad Johnson was one of 10 players named to the Karl Malone Power Forward of the Year Award late season watch list. He's averaging 11.9 points, 6.2 rebounds and shooting a career-best 38% from the 3-point line. He leads the Wildcats in blocked shots (16).
• Pelle Larsson is averaging 12.4 points, 4.6 rebounds and 3.6 assists over the last five games but shooting just 22% (4-18) from the 3-point line in that span games.
• The Wildcats have grabbed 10+ offensive rebounds in 17 of 21 games.
• Sophomore Kylan Boswell had 14 points, three assists and two steals at Oregon and followed that up with 7 points, four rebounds and five assists against Cal.
In the four games prior, Boswell scored a total of 14 points, four rebounds and seven assists.
He has already made more FG, 3FG, assists and points this year than he did all of last season.
• Freshman guard KJ Lewis posted a season high 14 points against Cal on Thursday while adding four rebounds and three assists. He has 45 assists and just 15 turnovers this year, among the top ratios by a freshman in the country this season. He's second on the team with 26 steals. In the last six games, he is 15 of 18 at the free throw line (.833).
• Fifth year forward Keshad Johnson scored 18 points at Oregon State, giving him four games with 17 or more points this season. In 113 games over four years at San Diego State, he never scored more than 16 points in a game. He had his second double-double of the year (sixth career) with 10 point, 13 rebounds vs. USC. At Oregon he went 3 of 4 from the 3-point line to tie his single-game career high.
• Sophomore Jaden Bradley has 16 assists and four turnovers to go with 12 steals over the last seven games. He leads the Wildcats with 15 steals in Pac-12 play this season.
• Motiejus Krivas is averaging 6.6 points, 5.1 rebounds and is 14 of 18 at the free throw line in Pac-12 play. He had 18 points at Cal and 15 points against Colorado.
• After the win at Oregon, Arizona has not lost back-to-back games since Tommy Lloyd took over as head coach in 2021-22. The Wildcats are 16-0 following a loss.
• Arizona leads the country in rebound margin (+12.4) and ranks second nationally in scoring (89.3), sixth in assists per game (18.8) and seventh in fastbreak points (16.5) and scoring margin (17.2).
• The Wildcats have had five or more players score in double figures in 11 of 21 games this season, a total that leads the country.
• The Arizona offense has posted a 10-0 run 22 times this season, tied for third-most in the country. Conversely, the Arizona defense has surrendered just four runs of 10-0 or better, per EvanMiya.com.
• The Wildcats have been ranked 50 straight weeks and 50 out of 52 weeks under head coach Tommy Lloyd. They have been in Top 10 for 39 weeks and in the Top 5 for 21 weeks.
• Arizona head coach Tommy Lloyd is in his third season with the Wildcats and has a record of 77-16, the third-most wins of any team in the country over that span.
• Under Lloyd, Arizona has recorded 20+ assists in 47 out of 93 games to lead the nation.
• Ballo was named to the preseason watch list for the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Center of the Year Award.
• The 2023-24 season marks the 119th year of men's basketball for the University of Arizona, and the Wildcats have an all-time record of 1,878-982.
