What we learned from Arizona’s tight win over UC Davis

Casey Sapio-USA TODAY SportsThe holiday break can’t come soon enough for the Arizona Wildcats.

What should have been a walkover, at least on paper, against lowly UC Davis instead turned into a nail-biter that saw Arizona trail three times in the final five minutes. In the end, the 70-68 victory over the 3-8 Aggies left us with even more questions about this team than we had going into the final non-conference game on the schedule.

But at least one question—is Arizona any good?—appears to have been answered.

It would be one thing if this performance was an isolated incident. But it comes a week after the atrocious 58-49 home loss to Baylor (who then proceeded to lose at home to Stephen F.…