TUCSON - As Arizona’s coach, Sean Miller is closer to the Final Four than he has ever been … at least from a geographical standpoint.
College basketball’s culminating event unfolds April 1 and 3 at University of Phoenix Stadium, just 131 miles from his office in McKale Center. Any suggestion five months ago that the Wildcats had a chance to land there would have been laughable.
Now, let’s be clear: It’s too soon to speculate about possible participants, as many top programs – like Arizona – are still figuring out how to fit in newcomers. That the Wildcats are even in the conversation – most way-too-early preseason polls rank them in the Top 10 – is commentary on the remarkable recruiting job Miller did after a slow start in a rapidly changing college-basketball world.