Asked about the end of last season, Sean Miller instead started with the beginning, detailing everything in which Arizona basketball accomplished. Another strong showing at McKale Center, another Pac-12 regular-season title (this one shared with Oregon), a three-day run in Vegas that ended with a conference tournament title.
By all measures, it was another banner season in Tucson – with the exception of how it ended. Picked as a favorite to make the Final Four in Glendale, Arizona instead collapsed in the Sweet 16 to 11th-seeded Xavier, denying Miller another chance to reach the national semifinals.
“In the NCAA Tournament, it’s not a given to get to the second weekend,” Miller said at Wednesday’s Arizona Road Tour stop at Culinary Dropout/The Yard in Tempe.