Sonoran Hot Reads: Cal's Tyrone Wallace breaks hand before NCAA Tournament

Adjust your brackets accordingly

If you had the California Golden Bears going a long way in your NCAA Tournament bracket, you may want to make a last second adjustment. According to The Vertical, senior guard Tyrone Wallace suffered a broken hand in the Bears' practice on Wednesday, putting his tournament status in jeopardy. It is his non-shooting hand, but this still isn't good for a young Cal team. The school did confirm the report late Wednesday night

- Experts are all over the place on their expectations for the Arizona Wildcats in this tournament.. Dick Vitale has them as a potential sleeper. Jeff Goodman says the best case is an Elite Eight, and worst case is obviously losing on Thursday night. Fran Fraschilla says Arizona's success depends on Ryan Anderson and Gabe York

- 6-seeds have only been .500 against 11-seeds since 2010. Also, only three six-seeds have reached the Final Four, and none have done it since 1992

- Sports Illustrated has Arizona losing to Kansas in the Elite Eight. Going off of KenPom, the Wildcats might also be a very good value

- Vegas says take the under in this one

- Is Arizona elite? ABC 15 doesn't think so. The Wildcats have a few of the 82 players from California in this year's tournament

- Oregon was pretty good this year, and they'll get Chris Boucher back next year after his appeal was upheld

- Damon Stoudamire is the new head coach at Pacific

- Allonzo Trier is the 10th-best freshman in this year's Big Dance. The Vertical also argues that this is Trier's chance to really boost his draft stock

- I challenge you to find better Arizona coverage than what we have. Ryan gave a masterful breakdown of the analytics heading into this game with Wichita. We also got an inside look at how the Shockers will likely attack Arizona from a Wichita expert. The Wildcat Radio guys also broke down the entire bracket, and I joined Wichita podcast Talk Angry to preview Arizona

- We're not done yet. We as a staff picked the South Region winner. And Matt gave you some of the best games from the entire slate of Thursday games

- Also, check out former AZDS manager Kevin Zimmerman's preview of the Arizona/Wichita game

Football

- We already knew this, but Scooby Wright was impossible to replace

- Former Arizona commit Braxton Burmeister may be headed to South Carolina...at least for a visit

- Gabe gave some thoughts on some long-term position battles going down on this year's team

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Baseball

- There's a new scoreboard coming to Hi Corbett next week

- Former Wildcat Joey Rickard hit a bomb for the Orioles in Spring Training

Softball

- The Cats will take on ASU in Tempe this weekend

Other sports

- Women's swimming and diving is in 9th after one day at the NCAA Championships

Tucson news

- Will changes to Davis-Monthan decrease the support from Tucsonans?

- MSNBC will be live from Tohono Chul Park on Thursday and Friday for election coverage

- Tucson fire put forth their proposed budget cuts

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— Arizona Basketball (@APlayersProgram) March 17, 2016

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