Arizona Basketball Summer Tour Day 3 | Aug 12, 2023 (copy)
Arizona men's basketball coach Tommy Lloyd said about his team's trip this past summer to Israel and Abu Dhabi (including, pictured, a visit to Jerusalem's Old City on Aug. 12): "My goal on this trip wasn't to go 3-0. My goal was to have a great experience."
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'Good players,' 'great guys': Tommy Lloyd's takeaways from Arizona basketball Mideast tour“My goal on this trip wasn't to go 3-0. My goal was to have a great experience,” Lloyd said before the Wildcats began the long journey home. “And it was kind of to see where certain guys are at on the court and then build from there."
International tours, like the Wildcats' recent Mideast trek, can make an already extended season seem that much longer. Here's how prior years have worked out for Arizona in years after the Wildcats left the mainland leading up to the season.
UA associate professor Rob Stephan, on Wildcat basketball players enrolled in his Intercultural Competency course tied to the UA team's Summer 2023 Mideast tour: “They were very respectful at all the different archaeological sites and religious sites. I was just so proud of our students.”
