– Tommy Lloyd was a guest on former UA Final Four center Tom Tolbert’s YouTube podcast last week; the Tom Tolbert Show. Tolbert spent about 20 years as the top sports talk show host in the Bay Area. To prepare for his appearance on the video podcast, Lloyd said he "steamed" his favorite Beastie Boys T-shirt rather than wear an Arizona shirt. Lloyd's ego never comes first. He told Tolbert "If you love what you do, if you're tough enough, you can live with the heartaches of being a basketball coach." It was Lloyd's second-best quote of the postseason. After beating Iowa State in the Big 12 Tournament, he said "my Wildcats played better than I coach." That's something you never heard out of Sean Miller or UCLA's Mick Cronin.
Arizona head coach Tommy Lloyd, middle, reacts toward players during the second half in the first round of the NCAA Tournament against LIU, Friday, March 20, 2026, in San Diego.
– Keona Davis originally committed to play football at Arizona. But the Salpointe Catholic defensive lineman changed courses, played two seasons at Nebraska and is now transferring to the Miami Hurricanes. That's life in college football, 2026. Davis started 13 games for Nebraska last year, playing 406 snaps.
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– Arizona football coach Brent Brennan’s annual coaching clinic at Casino Del Sol Stadium this week will feature guest speaker Chris Washington, former head coach at Washington and Boise State and now a CBS studio analyst. That's a miss for Washington coach Jedd Fisch, who regularly had Super Bowl coaches like Bill Belichick and Sean McVay at his Arizona coaching clinics. This year Fisch is having ex-Auburn coach Gus Malzahn as his featured speaker at the Huskies' coaches clinic.
– Sports Business Journal's annual NCAA Athletic Director of the Year banquet will be held May 20 in New York City. The four finalists are Utah's Mark Harlan, an Arizona alumnus, Indiana's Scott Dolson, Texas Tech's Kirby Hocutt and Vanderbilt's Candice Lee. Harlan attempted to become the AD at Arizona when Greg Byrne departed for Alabama a decade ago, but was not given an interview. He was then the AD at South Florida. Harlan just debuted a $36 million baseball facility at Utah and won the NCAA men's skiing national championship. Harlan has also decided not to build a new basketball arena, but to do a massive rebuild of the Huntsman Center, which opened in 1969 as a state-of-the-art college basketball arena. He became the first Power 4 football school to make a deal with a private-equity firm to help with rising costs. Harlan started his college career as a student manager on Dick Tomey's first UA football team. Quite a success story.
– Arizona's 2020 and 2021 basketball All-American point guard Aari McDonald could benefit greatly from the WNBA's new collective bargaining agreement. McDonald was paid $72,414 last year while playing for the Indiana Fever. In five years in the WNBA, her cumulative salary is $368,066, according to Sportrac. But now the WNBA's base salary is expected to be close to $300,000 per year. McDonald, who has also played professionally in Hungary, China and Australia, is a free agent.
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