TUCSON, Arizona -- Riccardo Fois laughs ironically when asked how Tommy Lloyd might adapt the Gonzaga blueprint to Arizona.
"Arizona was the blueprint for the original Gonzaga," the Wildcats assistant said. "Arizona and Duke. Lute Olson and Coach K and the brotherhood and the way everybody was together, was one of the things Coach [Mark] Few tried to build."
Jack Murphy, who attended Arizona and has now been on three different staffs in Tucson, shared a similar sentiment.
"The things they did early on at Gonzaga mirrored our program," Murphy said.
The emphasis on developing unknown or unheralded talent.