“I think this year’s team is a team that can play 40 minutes with single-digit turnovers and that’s a big difference from a year ago,” he said after Arizona beat Sacred Heart on Nov. 18, a game in which the Wildcats committed just seven turnovers.
The game after that — a win versus Northern Colorado — Arizona had just six turnovers.
But that happened when starting point guard Parker Jackson-Cartwright was healthy. Before suffering a high-ankle sprain, Jackson-Cartwright led the team in assists, averaging 5.3 per game, and did so with an assist-to-turnover ratio better than three to one.