After clinching the program’s first Final Four trip, Arizona head coach Adia Barnes pointed at the elephant in the room. The Wildcats will be headed into a field of teams stacked with McDonald’s All-Americans and they must find a way to counter that.
“We pride ourselves on development,” she said. “We pride ourselves on a lot of little things that I think a lot of programs don’t do and it’s just our philosophy. And it had to be our philosophy because we weren’t getting McDonald’s All-Americans. Some programs have multiple All-Americans. We don’t. We have one, which is Cate Reese.