Lute Olson coached hundreds of talented players at Arizona, but he singled out Sean Elliott as the very best of the bunch.
“Because he could play any position you wanted him to play,” Olson said a couple years ago at his statue unveiling.
Elliott was probably Olson’s most valuable player too.
After plucking him from Tucson’s Cholla High School—“to get him right out of town is amazing to me,” Olson once said—Elliott immediately contributed at a high level, leading Arizona in scoring as a freshman as the Wildcats reached the NCAA Tournament for the second straight year.