Sean Miller and his staff received a powerful recruiting tool today courtesy of the Wall Street Journal:
Of all the colleges sending players to the NBA since 1985, Arizona ranked No. 3 on the cumulative list of former players' salaries behind only North Carolina and Duke.
That's the kind of message that resonates as much (if not more) than NCAA tournament appearances or anything else with many of today's elite recruits and their families and/or handlers.
The Journal's Jared Diamond said each NBA player's total compensation was looked up and assigned to school he played for. Arizona players totaled $738 million according to the study, while North Carolina players totaled $853 million and Duke $809 million.
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UCLA was the only other Pac-12 team in the top 10, finishing No. 10 with $497 million.
Of course, most of the Arizona players who earned all that money were here during the Lute Olson era, but Derrick Williams isn't doing too badly as a rookie ($4.6 million) and Miller is likely to produce more NBA players from Arizona before long...
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Doug Haller is wondering if ASU's Scott Pera will become a candidate for the NAU head coaching job.
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Isaiah Thomas' "Mr. Irrelevant" trailer features his Pac-10 Tournament winning shot over Arizona.
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The Daily Wildcats' Mike Schmitz says Miller is "squeezing every ounce of potential" out of the Wildcats.
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In Seattle, Bud Withers assesses the Pac-12 candidates for the NCAA tournament, noting that UA doesn't exactly have many resume-builders left on its schedule.
Percy Allen puts Arizona at No. 2 in his weekly conference power ratings.
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Archie Miller has some nice new digs to show recruits at Dayton.
