Before Tommy Lloyd guided Arizona back to the Final Four last spring, the program endured a quarter-century of March heartbreak.
Between Arizona’s 2001 national championship game appearance and last year’s breakout run, the Wildcats reached 12 Sweet 16s and five Elite Eights without cutting down the nets in the regional finals.
Seven of those NCAA Tournament appearances and three of those Elite Eight trips came during Sean Miller’s 12-year tenure in Tucson (2009-21), a stretch defined by five Pac-12 regular-season titles, elite talent and crushing misfortune…