The #7 Arizona Wildcats are at home Wednesday night to face the Stanford Cardinal at 9 pm EST in a match-up between two PAC-12 teams with winning conference records. Arizona is tied for first in among the western dozen at 7-2, while Stanford is two games back and tied for fifth with a 5-4 mark.
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The Wildcats have only two losses all season with the most recent miscue coming January 24 versus UCLA. Arizona has won three games in a row since and is trying to get one "W" closer to the 14-game win streak the team opened the year with.
Arizona's leading scorer is Mark Lyons, who is averaging 14.9 points per game. He also leads the squad in assists per game with 2.9. Kaleb Tarczewski averages 5.8 boards per contest for the top spot team-wide in that category. Brandon Ashley has a .544 shooting percentage and has made the only three three-point shots he has taken this year. Solomon Hill's .420 clip leads the rest of the team's shooters in treys.
Lyons had 20 points in Saturday's 79-65 road win against the Washington State Cougars. Nick Johnson had a handful of assists. the Wildcats shot better in overall field goal percentage, three-point efficiency and free throw percentage, had more rebounds, assists, steals, and blocks, and committed fewer turnovers than the Cougs.
Stanford has also won three in a row since its last defeat, the fourth road loss of the year. The Cardinal is 1-2 against ranked teams this season, with the win coming in the last try: a 76-52 thrashing of the Oregon Ducks in the middle of this win streak.
Dwight Powell (14.4 ppg) and Chasson Randle (14.2 ppg) are the top Cardinal scorers so far this season. Josh Huestis picks up rebounds at a 9.3 per game pace, while Aaron Bright is the leading assist-getter (three per game). In fifteen games this year, Grant Verhoeven has a .556 shooting percentage to lead the team. John Gage is shooting .483 from behind the three-point line.
Stanford outlasted the Oregon State Beavers in the last contest 81-73 on Sunday at Maples Pavillion. Randle had 20 points and five assists, Bright added six helpers and Huestis notched 16 points plus 13 rebounds. Randle hit four of his six three-point shots as the team hit more than half of its attempts in that situation. (So did the Beavers in the loss.) The Cardinal won despite being out-rebounded by ten (33-23), and the home team added eight steals.
In the last game between Arizona and Stanford on February 4 of last year, the Wildcats expanded a one-point halftime lead into a 56-43 win on the road. Kyle Fogg of Arizona led the game with 14 point scored. Stanford shot worse than 30 percent in both halves, while the Wildcats improved from 31 percent to 50 in the first and second halves, respectively.
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