The 2009 NCAA Tournament’s highest overall seed faces the last team to be selected tonight. I’d say more but I’m still breathless from watching that Arizona Daily Wildcat “Journey to the Sweet Sixteen” video. So instead, I’ll just post a picture of the Ooh Aah Man. It seems to bring good luck.

Bear Down and shock [...]

I can’t wait to see the updated version after Arizona beats Louisville.
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Twenty-five consecutive tournaments can make a fan like me pretty arrogant. Still, I can’t remember the last time I prepared for a tournament game thinking that it’d be “OK” if Arizona lost. It’s not that I don’t think the ‘Cats can win on Friday — this squad has proven itself the epitome of the phrase [...]

These last 17 months have provided plenty of strange moments. And that’s to be expected, considering the whole, you know, Lute thing. But hasn’t Jamelle Horne suffered enough? Sure, the fouls vs. UAB and USC were, um, regrettable. But a dunk that doesn’t count? Sheesh… The kid deserves a break, don’t you think?
I suggest that [...]

With fewer than 56 hours before Arizona vs. Utah, it’s time to worship at the alter of the Ooh Aah Man. Your feeble Ute gods are no match! Lead us to salvation, oh conjuror of Bear Down. Or at least to the second weekend of tournament play.

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With all this talk of 25 straight NCAA basketball tournament appearances, it’s important to remember that Arizona football’s current bowl streak is only 32 glorious years away from matching Michigan’s now-inactive record of consecutive bowl seasons.
“William Coonley Savea Tuitama II back to pass… has Mike Thomas, Jr. open across the middle of the field… room [...]

On January 26, 2008 the Wall Street Journal’s Darren Everson wrote a premature obituary for Arizona’s streak of consecutive tournament appearances. And you couldn’t blame him.
“…Arizona was a dynasty not of dominance but of longevity. The Wildcats won just one national championship … Then again, fielding a good team every season for 24 years might have [...]

My buddy Matt received a text from a non-UA affiliated friend earlier today. It just said, “sorry, dude. end of an era.” Matt immediately called me, asking what it meant. I hadn’t heard anything.
But we both knew.
That’s not how I wanted to learn that Lute Olson would never coach for the University of Arizona again. [...]

I don’t want to believe that people like this exist…

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Luke Walton, stalked
Olson, engaged
Rudy Carpenter, karma’d (with video)
GoAzCats.com, Erin Andrews’d
GoAzCats message boarders, lech’d
RauRaur.com, can’t blame ‘em

Spencer Larson, started
Hassel, Hoff’d
Arizona Stadium, renovated?
Standings, rauraur’

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From Greg Hansen’s Sunday notebook:
Former UA All-Pac-10 linebacker Spencer Larsen is making an impact in his first season with the Denver Broncos. To open last week’s victory over New Orleans, Larsen delivered an epic hit/tackle that was played, re-played and re-replayed on sports highlight shows all week. “I don’t think I’ve ever seen somebody get [...]