BlogsRecruiting Spotlight: Marcus Benjamin
by joenewby4040
on Jul 10, 2009 3:30 PM PDT
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VITALS:
Name: Marcus Benjamin
Position: Defensive Back
Height: 6'
Weight: 180
Speed: 4.5 in the 40 yard dash
High School: Transfer from Arizona Western
Rivals: Three out of five stars
Recruited By: Jeff Hammerschmidt
STRENGTHS:
Marcus Benjamin is a mid-season enrollee who is from Arizona Western Community College. He originally verbally committed to LSU in 2005 but never enrolled. In J.C. he had 8 interceptions in 2008, not to mention his freshman campaign where he had 67 tackles and two interceptions. Benjamin's jump from 2 interceptions to 8 shows his comfort level in the secondary and his ability to close and make the pick. Benjamin completed spring drills with the team and should be competing for the starting cornerback position along with sophomore Trevin Wade. Trevin missed the spring game with the flu and Marcus had one tackle in the game.
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Channing Frye to the Phoenix Suns
by jruss
on Jul 10, 2009 10:56 AM PDT
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According to Yahoo Sports, the Phoenix Suns will sign free agent and former Arizona Wildcat Channing Frye to a two year deal for reportedly $3.8 million. The 8th pick overall in the 2005 draft by the New York Knicks, Frye spent a season in New York before being traded to Portland in 2007. Frye has a career scoring average of 8.2 points and 4.5 rebounds a game, with his highest totals coming in his rookie year when he averaged 9.5 points and 5.5 boards.
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Season Retrospective: Kyle Fogg
by dcrockett17
on Jul 9, 2009 8:50 AM PDT
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This is the fifth installment of a series of player-by-player look-backs at the 2008-2009 Wildcats basketball team. Click the links to see previous installments.
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Arizona Football: Odds to Win Pac-10 Title
by jruss
on Jul 8, 2009 9:31 AM PDT
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As of today, here are the odds of Arizona winning the Pac-10 Football title along with the other nine teams according to Lucky's Race and Sports Book (and pointed out by John Wilner of the San Jose Mercury News):
USC: 5/11
Cal: 2/1
Oregon: 4/1
UCLA: 9/1
Oregon State: 16/1
Arizona: 25/1
Arizona State: 25/1
Stanford: 40/1
Washington: 70/1
Washington State: 90/1
Does that seem pretty accurate to you?
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Final Hoops Commitment: Derrick Williams, PF
by jruss
on Jul 5, 2009 11:51 PM PDT
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To round out Arizona's 2009 basketball recruiting class, La Mirada High School power forward, Derrick Williams, a 3-star rated recruit by Rivals.com, will join Sean Miller in his first season as head coach of the Wildcats along with four other top rated recruits. A former USC recruit, who was let out of his letter of intent, Williams chose Arizona over Memphis so he could stay West - increasing the total number of USC defections to Arizona at three (Solomon Hill and Lamont Jones as the other two).
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WildcatSportsReport - Starting DL Transferring Home
This should open the door for Jonathan Hollins to start this year. Tough break for the Cats, but let's hope Hollins doesn't miss a beat.
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The "Arizona Brand"
by joenewby4040
on Jul 4, 2009 1:49 PM PDT
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"The Arizona brand speaks for itself," Miller said. "It's an amazing recruiting tool."
On April 7, 2009, the Cats did not have one recruit for the 2009 season. That quickly changed with Miller grabbing Solomon Hill, Derrick Williams, Lamont Jones, Kevin Parrom, and Kyrl Natyazho. The Cats are looking like they will be a work in progress from the beginning with such young blood coming and minimal returning starters. Nic Wise will have to lead the charge for this group to start gelling by Pac-10 time. Here is a look at the 2009-2010 basketball schedule:
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| 11/01/09 | Red-Blue Game | Tucson, Ariz. | TBA |
| 11/04/09 | vs. Augustana College | Tucson, Ariz. | TBA |
| 11/10/09 | vs. Western New Mexico | Tucson, Ariz. | TBA |
| 11/15/09 | vs. Northern Arizona | Tucson, Ariz. | TBA |
| 11/19/09 | vs. Rice | Tucson, Ariz. | TBA |
| EA Sports Maui Invitational | |||
| 11/23/09 | Chaminade, Cincinnati, Colorado, Gonzaga, Maryland, Vanderbilt, Wisconsin | Lahaina, Hawaii | TBA |
| 11/24/09 | Second Round | Lahaina, Hawaii | TBA |
| 11/25/09 | Third Round | Lahaina, Hawaii | TBA |
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| 12/02/09 | vs. UNLV | Tucson, Ariz. | TBA |
| Big 12/Pac-10 Hardwood Series | |||
| 12/06/09 | at Oklahoma | Norman, Okla. | TBA |
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| 12/09/09 | vs. Louisiana Tech | Tucson, Ariz. | TBA |
| 12/12/09 | at San Diego State | San Diego, Calif. | TBA |
| 12/21/09 | vs. Lipscomb | Tucson, Ariz. | TBA |
| 12/23/09 | vs. North Carolina State | Tucson, Ariz. | TBA |
| Fiesta Bowl Classic | |||
| 12/28/09 | vs. BYU | Tucson, Ariz. | TBA |
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| 12/31/09 | at UCLA | Los Angeles, Calif. | TBA |
| 01/02/10 | at USC | Los Angeles, Calif. | TBA |
| 01/07/10 | vs. Washington State | Tucson, Ariz. | TBA |
| 01/09/10 | vs. Washington | Tucson, Ariz. | TBA |
| 01/14/10 | at Oregon State | Corvallis, Ore. | TBA |
| 01/16/10 | at Oregon | Eugene, Ore. | TBA |
| 01/23/10 | at Arizona State | Tempe, Ariz. | TBA |
| 01/28/10 | vs. Stanford | Tucson, Ariz. | TBA |
| 01/30/10 | vs. California | Tucson, Ariz. | TBA |
| 02/04/10 | at Washington | Seattle, Wash. | TBA |
| 02/06/10 | at Washington State | Pullman, Wash. | TBA |
| 02/11/10 | vs. Oregon | Tucson, Ariz. | TBA |
| 02/13/10 | vs. Oregon State | Tucson, Ariz. | TBA |
| 02/20/10 | vs. Arizona State | Tucson, Ariz. | TBA |
| 02/25/10 | at California | Berkeley, Calif. | TBA |
| 02/27/10 | at Stanford | Palo Alto, Calif. | TBA |
| 03/04/10 | vs. USC | Tucson, Ariz. | TBA |
| 03/06/10 | vs. UCLA | Tucson, Ariz. | TBA |
The Cats have their work cut out for them by playing in Maui against Maryland, Gonzaga, Wisconsin and then traveling to Norman to play Oklahoma. After that brutal start, the Cats take on N.C. State at home followed by BYU in Tucson. After all of the non-conference madness the Cats Pac-10 opener is against UCLA in Los Angeles.
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Former Arizona Hoopsters Participating in NBA Vegas Summer League
by jruss
on Jul 2, 2009 2:53 PM PDT
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July 10-19 marks the annual NBA Vegas Summer League where NBA teams get a first look at their newly drafted rookies and give their second year players a chance to step it up and show they deserve more playing time (see: Portland G Jerryd Bayless). The other fun part about the Summer League is that it gives an opportunity for a whole host of other players (former collage players, European, D-Leaguers, etc) a chance to try and sneak their way onto an NBA roster. Here's a look at all of the Arizona basketball alumni taking part in this year's Vegas Summer League, 8 in all with five rosters still to be announced:
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