Remember when the Arizona Wildcats were 4-0 in the Pac-12, sitting at 13-4 overall and making many wonder if all that talk of a down season was just sandbagging? Yeah, those were good times.
A day later, sophomore wing Emmanuel Akot decided to leave the program, triggering a series of unfortunate events for Arizona that has included injuries to the Wildcats’ two most important players and what’s now the longest losing streak in 36 years.
Sunday’s 67-60 loss at Colorado was Arizona’s seventh straight, with five of those coming on the road. The Wildcats were dominant away from home in Pac-12 play in Sean Miller’s first nine seasons, going 50-31, but unless they manage at least a split of the Oregon trip in two weeks they’ll finish with their worst league road record since going 2-7 in 2008-09.