Live scoring updates for the Elite 8 matchup between the Arizona Wildcats and Wisconsin Badgers.
The West region will be decided Saturday evening, tipping off at 6:09 PM ET/3:09 PM local time at Staples Center in Los Angeles, CA.
These two squads met last season in the Elite 8 about 60 miles down the road at Honda Center in Anaheim. Wisconsin won that game a season ago 64-63 in overtime in one of the most exciting and surprising endings in the 2014 NCAA Tournament.
The two went back-to-back, side-to-side, score-for-score in the game which decided who’d move onto the Final Four.
Wisconsin last season was the 2-seed, Arizona the 1. And the Badgers pulled off the upset. The seeds are reversed this season, as Arizona looks for revenge, and what would at least technically be an upset.
Both sides endured close games in the Sweet 16 to secure the rematch. Wisconsin trailed North Carolina 33-31 at halftime and for a good portion of the second half before coming back and taking control in the game’s final minutes, finally winning 79-72.
Arizona, similarly, was in a world of trouble against the 6th-seeded Xavier Musketeers. They were tied at 28 as the two teams went to the locker room. Arizona also looked to be in trouble as the second half progressed, but the Wildcats finally took control late and strolled to an eight-point win.
After Arizona’s hard-fought win, Sean Miller was open and honest about the revenge opportunity ahead of him Saturday. “The next step is a big one. The fact we’re playing Wisconsin…it’s almost as if we had a summer to think about it, and we have to somehow make that to our advantage.”
You can follow the scoring from Saturday’s West region final here with Fansided.
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