The 2013-14 Arizona Wildcats men's basketball team represented the University of Arizona during the 2013-14 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The team was led by fifth-year head coach Sean Miller and played home games at McKale Center in Tucson, Arizona as a member of the Pac-12 Conference. They finished the season 33-5, 15-3 in Pac-12 play to win the Pac-12 regular season championship. They advanced to the championship game of the Pac-12 Tournament where they lost to UCLA. They received an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament where they defeated Weber State, Gonzaga, and San Diego State to advance to the Elite Eight where they lost to Wisconsin.
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Previous season
Arizona's 2012-13 team finished with a record of 27-8 after advancing to the NCAA Tournament's Sweet Sixteen. The team went 12-6 in the Pac-12 regular season, putting them in a three-way tie for second place. In the Pac-12 Tournament, the team defeated Colorado to advance to the semifinals, where they lost to UCLA. Ranked 21st in the post-season AP poll, the Cats were seeded 6th in the West Region of the NCAA Tournament. Arizona won its first two tournament games, defeating 11-seed Belmont and 14-seed Harvard, before falling to 2-seed Ohio State in the regional semifinals.
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Off-season
Departures
Incoming transfers
- Point guard T.J. McConnell and center Matt Korcheck first played for Arizona in 2013-14 after red-shirting the previous season. McConnell, a Duquesne transfer and the nephew of Women's Basketball Hall of Fame member Suzie McConnell Serio, was required to sit out 2012-13 under NCAA transfer rules. Korcheck was eligible to play as a junior college transfer but arranged with Miller to redshirt given Arizona's front-court depth. Both had two years of eligibility remaining after redshirting.
2013 Recruiting class
Roster
Depth chart
- before Feb. 1
- after Feb. 1
Schedule
Arizona's thirteen-game non-conference schedule had two road games, two neutral-site games, and nine home games. The team spent Thanksgiving in New York City for the 2013 NIT Season Tip-Off semifinal and championship rounds held at Madison Square Garden. Arizona was one of four regional hosts for the NIT Tip-Off's first and second rounds, the others being Duke, Alabama, and Rutgers.
In the unbalanced 18-game Pac-12 schedule, the Cats will face neither the Washington schools on the road nor the Los Angeles schools at home.
Ranking movement
Team statistics
Source
Awards
- Freshman student-athlete of the year
- AP Honorable Mention
- 2013: USA Basketball Male Athlete of the Year
- Individual All-America teams
- 2014 NCAA Tournament's West Regional all-tournament team
- Third All-America Team- Sporting News
- USBWA All-District team
- NABC All District Second Team
- Pac-12 All-Freshman Team
- Pac-12 First Team
- Pac-12 Freshman of the Year
- 2013 NIT Season Tip-Off All-Tournament Team
- CBS Sports and U.S. Basketball Writers Association Freshman Of The Week Honors
- Junior student-athlete of the year
- Wooden All-American team
- AP All-American second team
- 2014 NCAA Tournament's West Regional all-tournament team
- First team All-American - TSN, USBWA
- Consensus All-American - USBWA, NABC, Sporting News
- USBWA All-District team
- NABC All District First Team
- USBWA District IX Player of the Year
- Pac-12 First Team
- Pac-12 All-Defense Team
- Pac-12 Player of the Year
- 2013 NIT Season Tip-Off MVP, All-Tournament Team
- Pac-12 Player of the Week (December 2, 2013)
- Pac-12 All-Freshman Team
- Freshman student-athlete of the year
- Sophomore student-athlete of the year
- Pac-12 Second Team
- Pac-12 All-Defensive Team
- USBWA District IX Coach of the Year
- Pac-10/12 John R. Wooden Coach of the Year
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