When Tommy Lloyd thinks about the factors that have enabled Arizona’s smooth transition between years one and two of his tenure, he circles back to when Dalen Terry kept his name in the NBA Draft last May, such briefly left the program with a gaping hole in the backcourt.
Over the next few weeks, Lloyd worked around-the-clock to find someone who could replace Terry’s defense and energy, if not his tremendous size.
“We were kind of stuck in a bind recruiting-wise, and things weren’t coming easy,” Lloyd said.
Better known for recruiting Central Europe than central America, Lloyd nevertheless turned to the Midwest to land Courtney Ramey, a St.