With the seventh top-five showdown to ever occur in the conference, Arizona Wildcats fans had McKale Center rocking, and for good reason when the UCLA Bruins came to town on Saturday.
Having been at just about every Arizona game the last three years, it was the loudest and most energetic a McKale crowd had been since the Gonzaga overtime win in 2014.
But UCLA didn’t mind it. Not one bit.
“Not an easy place to come in to play and get a win, for us to do that in late February, I’m very proud of ‘em,” UCLA head coach Steve Alford after his team’s 77-72 victory.