During the tail end of Sean Miller’s tenure, and for the first two seasons under Tommy Lloyd, Arizona only played one public exhibition game. The other, a so-called “secret scrimmage” against another Division I team, was played behind closed doors.
Maybe that’s the better course of action, because the Wildcats didn’t look nearly as crisp in Monday’s 94-65 win over Division II New Mexico Highlands as they did in the previous exhibition 10 days earlier.
“There’s a standard of intelligence and fundamentals that we demand, and I don’t think we’ve met those today,” Lloyd said afterward.