Michael DeFoe

I lost control of all my emotions with a minute left in the game last night. This is when I saw my dad for the first time - he embraces my crazy super fan side and knows how much this means to me and the whole city of Tucson🥹🥹 I hope we travel to Arizona basketball games forever @wishbone517 !!! ❤️❤️

@Novig Out of pocket

Bryce James joins an elite group of freshman who have made the semi finals

@On3 @PeteNakos Well deserved! Former coach at Arizona, heck of a defensive mind and a great connector with his players. Good luck, Coach!

BREAKING: NC State is hiring Tennessee assistant coach Justin Gainey as its next head basketball coach, @PeteNakos reports. on3.com/news/nc-state-…

@ChancellorTV @KevoPosts @PHNX_Wildcats Really good stuff! Giving the big fella his flowers!!

Arizona’s Mo Krivas is as clutch as they come, except his late game heroics look a little different. How the Wildcat big man consistently closes out games on the boards:

@Collinoscopy1 @JaredBerson @MOD4three “…for a team trailing by 2.” It excludes game winners for teams trailing by 1 or tied.

@YoDeFoe @JaredBerson @MOD4three It literally says deepest game winner. That means any team that was tied down one or down two. Otherwise it isn’t possible for a 3 to be a game winner

UConn’s Braylon Mullins’ game-winner is the deepest game-winning three ever hit in the final seconds of an NCAA Tournament game for a team trailing by 2. UConn’s 19-point comeback is 2nd-largest ever to go to the Final Four, trailing only Louisville in 2005 (20).

@jasonscheer @BillPtbr GLUE GUY

Another legend.

@UConnMBB The Steal and the Swish

BRAYLON. MULLINS.

4K Courtside footage of UConn’s game winner over Duke.

A FINAL FOUR WELCOME AT MCKALE @ArizonaMBB

@AZATHLETICS @ThatSportsPaige Literally woke up and said “oh my god, we did it.”

Good morning, fam. It wasn't a dream.

@Thomasdunn24 What a beautiful sentiment from Tommy. Tucson is so fortunate to have him.

Tommy Lloyd on why it was important to him to mention the late Arizona HC Lute Olson on court postgame "He gave me a better life. His legacy in Tucson is so powerful. He's the main catalyst to make our program the center of our community. People in Tucson really want to like their basketball coach. The reason they want to love you is because they love Lute so much. Without Lute, without Sean Miller doing what he did, I wouldn't be here today. This is for them too and I have no problem sharing the success of this team with the coaches that came before me."

Really bleak stuff here. nytimes.com/2026/03/26/wel…

@JavierJMorales @loriburkhart I consider myself a pretty knowledgeable fan and I did NOT know that

Part of Sean Miller’s first staff at Arizona in 2009-10 as a graduate assistant.

Maybe Arizona coach Tommy Lloyd doesn’t need the next job. From @JerryBrewer ⤵️ nytimes.com/athletic/71512… via @NYTimes

@ATXSportsFan @TheHoopHerald @thecoco2020_ “Where basketball is more sacred” is peak arrogance. Tucson lives for its basketball program. We sell out our house consistently the same way UNC sells out theirs.

@TheHoopHerald @thecoco2020_ That’s on you then. UNC = bigger Mon-Star in a more special place. Where basketball is more sacred. And coaches are more than coaches.

Honest question: If Tommy Lloyd can recruit this kind of Mon-Star filled team at Arizona Why in the world would he go anywhere else to coach and build a roster?

@TylerJWorden @ReinOnWildcats Very good scout!!

PURDUE SCOUTING REPORT: Arizona is 36 hours away from cutting down nets in San Jose, but they have to get past Matt Painter and the Purdue Boilermakers first. Arizona fans remember Purdue from December 2023 when the Cats went to Indianapolis and lost 92-84. The backcourt duo of Fletcher Loyer and Braden Smith went 9-16 from 3pt range that night and Zach Edey offered 22/9 in the win. While a lot of the pieces remain at Purdue, there are clear areas where Arizona can attack this team. 1) Size down low - Purdue is the smallest team left in the NCAA tournament and rank 120th in the country in average height (vs. 8th for Arizona). Edey is gone and is replaced by Oscar Cluff, a 6'11 senior who grades out on KenPom as the 2nd most best offensive player in the country. Purdue loves to utilize him in the P&R and he is phenomenal at getting offensive boards. But Cluff is a below-the-rim type of player - he is more of a bruiser than a true rim protector. Arizona has handled big man profiles like this all season - where Arizona has struggled against bigs is the type of player that can stretch the floor and utilize their athleticism against Krivas. Purdue is playing in this game purely because Texas C Matas Vokietaitis picked up his 4th foul midway through the 2nd half yesterday and had no answer for Cluff. That won't be the case for Arizona, who will be able to matchup well against a less athletic center. 2) Backcourt athleticism - in the final seconds of a tied Sweet 16 game against Texas, Braden Smith drove around a 6'3, 180lb Chendall Weaver and missed a layup before being tipped in by Trey Kaufmann-Renn. That was their end of game play call... having a 6'0, 170lb Braden Smith who times his 40-yard dash with a sundial driving to the lane. Good luck trying to do that against the size and speed of Jaden Bradley (6'3 / 205), Brayden Burries (6'4 / 205) or Ivan Kharchenkov (6'7 / 230). Arizona has the ability to bully the Boilermaker backcourt with their size, their strength, and their athletic ability. 3) FT advantage - Purdue is 333rd in the country at getting to the line. Arizona is 7th. Purdue has shot 575 FTs this season - Arizona has shot 998! In a game of fouls, Arizona not only holds a scoring advantage but has the bodies in the front court to withstand any foul trouble. This will be especially important given the pace that Purdue wants to play at. Purdue is going to do everything in their power to dictate the terms of this game. They are going to slow it down - they're 325th in the country in tempo. They're going to pack the lane, sag off, and dare Arizona to shoot 3s. Purdue is 38th in the country in 3pt attempts allowed and 12th in average 2pt distance. I'm sure we'll see some full court press out of Painter in an attempt to grind the pace down as much as possible. And don't get it twisted, this Purdue team can make threes. That sends a shiver down the spine of every Arizona fans who remembers Sam Dekker turning into Reggie Miller in the final minutes of the 2015 Elite 8, and Fletcher Loyer has the ability to do that. But this is not the 2015 Wisconsin team. That team had 3 NBA draft picks - I don't think there is one on Purdue. That team was the 2nd tallest team in the country - Purdue is 120th. That team has multiple 6'9 or taller forwards who would stretch the court and shoot threes - Purdue doesn't have that. As we've been saying all season, if Arizona goes out there and plays their game, they're beating Purdue. If I am Tommy Lloyd, I am trying to establish our game in the front court early and often, I am trying to get out in transition at every possible opportunity, and I am using our strength and athletic advantage in the backcourt to bully Braden Smith, CJ Cox and Fletcher Loyer. We are 1 win away from Arizona returning to the Final Four for the first time in 25 years, and we have the best team in the country to do it. Go out there and play your style of game... ...and I'll see you in Indy. Arizona - 82 Purdue - 73

Stagflation. Monster in the closet during COVID recovery, monster under the bed in the later Biden years, and now we’re eye to eye with it.

US bond markets are under serious pressure. The 10Y Note Yield is back at 4.40% and the average 30Y Mortgage is up to 6.38%, up for 4-straight weeks. Just days prior to the Iran War, mortgages fell to the 5%'s for the first time since 2022. The bond market needs serious help.

@ironmikeluke @JoshCox77 @ronloldo @jasonscheer lol. Lmao

@JoshCox77 @ronloldo @jasonscheer thoughts on Josh insisting Arizona was after Marcus Bagley?

Nobody would object right?