Several factors go into winning basketball games — shooting, rebounding, limiting turnovers, and playing sound defense to name a few — but for the Arizona Wildcats, bench scoring can be viewed as the most determining factor in their success.
Their bench is averaging 18.2 points per game this season, a figure that swings drastically in wins and losses. The unit is averaging 23.3 points per game in wins and just 6.3 points per game in losses.
In other words, the Wildcats often go as their bench goes.
“When our team is going to be at its best and when we have been at our best through the first 10 games of our season, we’ve gotten great contributions from a number of players who came off the bench,” Arizona coach Sean Miller said Monday on his weekly radio show.