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'Horrendous' 1st half dooms UA

Oregon 55, Arizona 45

By Ari Wasserman

EUGENE, Ore. - Arizona defensive coordinator Mark Stoops emerged from the Wildcats' locker room for interviews with the media, leaned against the wall and shamefully put his head down. Having just seen Arizona lose 55-45 to Oregon in Autzen Stadium, Stoops was almost speechless when he was approached.

"They said it"

Coming off a 55-45 loss to Oregon on Saturday, the Arizona Daily Wildcat caught up with coaches and players following the game at Autzen Stadium.

Icecats fall to 2-7

By Vincent Balistreri

The Arizona club hockey team outplayed its opponent Saturday, but the inability to finish resulted in a 3-2 loss against Colorado in a shootout and another winless weekend at the Tucson Convention Center. With 6:28 remaining in the final period, Cody Morin scored on an assist from Robbie Nowinski in the front of net.

UA program has promising future

By Brian Kimball

EUGENE, Ore. - It wasn't pretty by any stretch of the imagination, but it wasn't a total loss either. Despite the shoddy first-half performance by the Wildcats and the end result being a loss, the Wildcats showed just how far this program has come in the five years under head coach Mike Stoops, no matter what the statistics from this game show.

Moving forward with one step back

NCAA basketball season kicks off with 3-point line adjustment

By Lance Madden

The Arizona men's basketball team is adjusting to all the changes this season one step at a time. More literally in some cases. When Arizona opens up its 2008-09 campaign against Florida Atlantic in the Dick's Sporting Goods NIT Season Tipoff tonight at 9 in McKale Center, the Wildcats will have to adjust to the new NCAA 3-point line, which has been moved from 19 feet, 9 inches, to 20 feet, 9 inches.

Mixed results for UA swimming, dive in L.A.

USC Trojans sink Wildcats; women recoup at UCLA

By Kevin Zimmerman

Numbers would indicate that the No. 2 men's and No. 4 women's swim and dive teams returned from their California visit Saturday with a mixed bag of success, as the women's team split in meets with USC and UCLA, and the men's team lost to USC. The women's team was upset by the Trojans in Los Angeles on Friday 164-136, but regrouped Saturday, beating the UCLA Bruins 157-121.

Volleyball loses to top-10 L.A. schools

By Kara Bauman

The Arizona volleyball team went 0-for-2 in Los Angeles this weekend. On Friday, the Wildcats lost to No. 10 USC (16-8, 9-6 Pacific 10 Conference) by set scores of 25-17, 25-19 and 25-16. They wiped their slate clean the following night to battle No. 9 UCLA (18-8, 8-7) but ended with the same 0-3 outcome with slightly different scores (25-17, 25-18, 25-22).

W-hoops wins Hawaii tournament in tiebreaker

By Nicole Dimtsios

The Arizona women's basketball team returns to Tucson as champions of the Bank of Hawaii Invitational Tournament. The Wildcats (2-1) were crowned champions in Hilo, Hawaii, after winning a tiebreaker - determined by least points allowed - by two points over Loyola Marymount (2-1) and Toledo (0-3), both of whom Arizona beat this weekend.

Cross country's Lagat takes 17th in regionals

By David Blattman

After a long and draining year, the 2008 cross country season finally concluded Saturday as the men's and women's squads competed in the NCAA West Regional Championships in Palo Alto, Calif. But for senior Irine Lagat, there may be a bit more. Lagat has not only been one of Arizona's top runners but has also been one of the top runners in the country.

Pennell: Friday's ESPN report was not accurate

Coach says all of his players will be eligible tonight

By Bryan Roy

UA interim head coach Russ Pennell completely denied a recent story that some of his players could be ineligible for tonight's opener due to an NCAA investigation. Andy Katz of ESPN.com reported Friday that Arizona may face six ineligible players for receiving excess expenses while participating in the Arizona Cactus Classic, an AAU tournament, in McKale Center from 2006-08.

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