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Arizona Wildcats guard Dylan Smith (3), Arizona Wildcats men's basketball vs. UCLA 2/8/20 in Tucson, Ariz.Photo by Mike Christy / Arizona Athletics
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Men's Basketball

Road Winning Streak On The Line at California

TUCSON, Ariz. - The Arizona Wildcats, winners of their last two road games, will travel to the Bay Area to take on California on Thursday night at Haas Pavilion. Overall, Arizona has won the last seven games against the Golden Bears, tied for the third-longest active winning streak by a Pac-12 team against a conference opponent.

GAME INFORMATION
Arizona at California
Thursday, Feb. 13, 2020
8:30 p.m. (MST) at Haas Pavilion
TV: FS1 (Alex Faust & Steve Lavin)
Radio: Arizona IMG Radio Network (Brian Jeffries & Reggie Geary)

OFF THE TOP
Arizona has won its last two conference road games after sweeping the Washington schools two weeks ago.  UA leads all Pac-12 schools with 14 road sweeps in the Pac-12 Era.

The Wildcats have won seven straight games against Cal, tied for the third-longest active streak in the Pac-12. Arizona will look to extend the longest active streak in the Pac-12 on Saturday at Stanford (19 games).

Arizona ranks 11th in the latest NET ranking (best in Pac-12) and a strength of schedule that ranks No. 5. 

UA leads the Pac-12 in scoring overall (78.8) and is second in conference games (72.4).

The 1.40-to-1 assist/turnover ratio is 10th in the country, with the Wildcats turning the ball over a total of 21 times over the last three games (6, 6, 9).

The freshman trio of Zeke Nnaji (372), Nico Mannion (323) and Josh Green (274) are the top scoring freshman trio in the country with 969 points, just ahead of Duke's trio of Carey, Stanley and Hurt (955).

Nnaji is a three-time Pac-12 freshman of the week honoree and is the only player in the Pac-12 averaging a double-double in conference play (15.7p, 10.3r). He has tallied 11 double-doubles this season - seven in Pac-12 play - and needs one more to move into a three-way tie for second on the UA single-season double-double list by a freshman. He enters Thursday's having recorded three straight double-doubles. Against UCLA, he had 14 points, 10 rebounds and was 10-of-10 at the free throw line.

Mannion is second in the Pac-12 with 126 assists this season, needing six more to pass Luke Walton for fifth on the Arizona freshman assists list. In Pac-12 play he is averaging 3.6 rebounds per game after collecting just 1.9 rebounds per game in non-conference play. He is the only freshman in the country averaging 14.0p, 5.5a. 

After scoring in double figures once in a six-game span in January, freshman Josh Green has tallied back-to-back double digit scoring efforts with 18 points vs. USC and 11 points vs. UCLA. He leads the team with 35 steals and ranks eight in the Pac-12 in steals/game (1.5). 

As a starter the last six games, graduate transfer Stone Gettings has averaged 9.9p, 5.0r and is shooting 60.9 percent from the floor. He logged his first double-double of the season with 19p, 12r at Washington State and had 12p, 8r against USC on Thursday.

Redshirt sophomore Jemarl Baker Jr. has played 143 consecutive minutes without committing a turnover, and he has 18 assists in that time period.
 
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Players Mentioned

Stone Gettings

#13 Stone Gettings

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6' 9"
Graduate Student
Jemarl Baker Jr.

#10 Jemarl Baker Jr.

G
6' 4"
Redshirt Sophomore
Josh Green

#0 Josh Green

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6' 6"
Freshman
Nico Mannion

#1 Nico Mannion

G
6' 3"
Freshman
Zeke Nnaji

#22 Zeke Nnaji

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6' 11"
Freshman

Players Mentioned

Stone Gettings

#13 Stone Gettings

6' 9"
Graduate Student
F
Jemarl Baker Jr.

#10 Jemarl Baker Jr.

6' 4"
Redshirt Sophomore
G
Josh Green

#0 Josh Green

6' 6"
Freshman
G
Nico Mannion

#1 Nico Mannion

6' 3"
Freshman
G
Zeke Nnaji

#22 Zeke Nnaji

6' 11"
Freshman
F
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