Basketball is one of the eleven women sports in Arizona. The Arizona Wildcats also have a team for men’s basketball. However, this program is only for the females. This team is a division I members of the NCAA basketball (National Collegiate Athletic Association). This team head coach is none other than Adia Barnes with the 7 seasons in play. They also been known as Wildcats and their jerseys are colored as Cardinal and navy. Wildcats will begin their journey in Big 12 conference along with Arizona State, Colorado, Utah in 2024-25 session.
For the majority of part, the woman's basketball club has existed in the shadowy realm of its male equivalent, which has culminated in many disappointing seasons. Yet, the women's basketball squad has improved their winning percentage in the past few years, attributing mostly to the training style and talent, and claimed the Women's National Invitational Tournament (WNIT) designation in the year 2019. They achieved the semifinals for the initial time in the year 2021, beating Connecticut to go into the National Championship game. They would fall to Harvard during the National Championship.
History
Firstly, female requested a team for basketball in 1912 but they were denied by giving some reasons but in 1921, they had their first game as interclass game. After that school organized several matches with players from sororities and dormitories. In 1923, they started Intercollegiate competition and had a varsity team played.
First Season
The first season of Arizona wildcats’ women was in 1972-73 season, after which they got the Title IX Act is an American law that forces state-supported universities to provide equal access to both male and female programmes. The squad ended its first campaign with an 8-4 record. Western Collegiate Athletic Association was set up in 1979 by the state-owned University o Arizona, Arizona State College, with four southern California colleges. These games had been picked as college basketball picks against the spread.
As of the beginning of the 2015–16 baseball season, the team record stood at 539–649. The Cats' highest division achievements came in those two years when they placed second in the Pac-10 Conference championship. When the NCAA attached the American Intercollegiate Athletic Association in 1981, the squad became a member of the NCAA. The institute join the Pacific-West Division in 1984, which then formed the Pac-10 subsequent year and the Pacific 12 Conference in the year 2011.
Recent team players
- McKale (Jr. Gary, Ind. Bishop Noll HS Middle Tennessee State)
- Skylar Jones (Fr. Kansas City, Mo. La Jolla Country Day School)
- Esmery Martinez (5th Hato Mayor del Rey, Dominican Republic West Virginia)
- Helena Pueyo (5th Palma de Mallorca, Spain Segle XX)
- Maya Nnaji (So. Hopkins, Minn. Hopkins HS)
- Salimatou Kourouma (R-Sr. Kati, Mali Life Prep Academy Little Rock)
- Erin Tack (So. Kelso, Wash. Kelso Senior High School)
- Isis Beh (R-Jr. Murray, Utah Murray HS West Virginia)
- Breya Cunningham (Fr. Chula Vista, Calif. La Jolla Country Day School)
No comments yet