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Arizona basketball: Three things we learned from Wildcats’ 78-66 win over CSUB

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Tuesday night, the Arizona Wildcats won their regular season home opener, as they defeated CSU Bakersfield, 78-66.

Arizona did so without its best defender as Kadeem Allen sat out with a sprained knee after his heroics in Honolulu.

This left the Wildcats with only seven scholarship players available to play on Tuesday night. Everyone needed to contribute and that they did. Here are three things we learned:

RUTHLESS AGGRESSION

A common theme in the two Wildcats games thus far this season has been the huge number of free throws taken.

On Tuesday, Arizona shot 24 more free throw attempts than CSUB, following up a performance where they out-shot Michigan State by 18 at the line.