Sonoran Hot Reads: Arizona to play Saint Mary's in "secret" scrimmage

Wildcats and Gaels meet again in secret

College basketball teams are forced to have "secret" scrimmages because of weird NCAA rules, but ESPN has a full list of them, so they're not that secret. And stats will get out from them afterwards. Anyways, the Arizona Wildcats are playing the St. Mary's Gaels for the second-straight year in this "secret" game. Last year it was in Tucson. This year, it will be up in the Bay Area.

- Bruce Pascoe talked to Lauri Markkanen's dad about his son's decision to play basketball at Arizona. The upcoming departures from Arizona's frontcourt played a huge role in the commitment

- John Gasaway has Arizona as the favorite in the Pac-12, and says Cal is most likely to fall flat on their face

- We're looking for some more writers to help expand our basketball coverage, so if you like what you see here, you can become one of us!

Football

- Paul Magloire has emerged the last couple of weeks. Here's what it's like to be him

- Here's a quick Sports Guys episode on the WSU game

- CougCenter has all the preview goodness you could ever need, including a conversation with Anthony Gimino

- This random guy thinks there will be more than 71 points scored on Saturday. Really going out on a limb there

- Campus Insiders has this game as a 44-40 Arizona win

- Our friends to the north at House of Sparky put Arizona in the Cactus Bowl in their projections, because they can't get enough Arizona apparently

- Luke Falk has been a more physical guy this year, leading to more success

Other sports

- Wildcat Wednesday was all about the Homecoming

- Arizona is sending two student-athletes to the Pac-12 Student Athlete Advisory Committee. They are senior golfer Kolton Lapa and redshirt senior gymnast Danielle Buchanan

- How does soccer build a dynasty? With players like Kaitlyn Lopez

- Sand Volleyball is off to Huntington Beach for the weekend. Tough life

- Carlos Villarreal has had an interesting path to the Arizona cross country team

Tucson news

- Here's a full list of all the Homecoming events going down this weekend

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