Sonoran Hot Reads: Mizzou giving away Chick-Fil-A breakfast before Arizona game

Gotta keep people from studying for finals

At this time of year, a lot of college basketball programs struggle to fill up their arenas because of finals, pending holiday travels, etc. So the Missouri Tigers will try to combat this a little bit Saturday morning when they host the Arizona Wildcats. The first 500 students that show up to the game are going to get free breakfast sandwiches from Chick-Fil-A. This excites sophomore guard Terrence Phillips:

Hey Mizzou students did I mention that the first 500 students get free Chick-fil-A breakfast for Saturday game oops http://pic.twitter.com/CE15Im2Sqw

— Terrence Phillips (@FloorGeneral03) December 7, 2016

Phillips and a couple of other players actually went out and handed out tickets to students that answered trivia questions to try and get more people at this game. This Kim Anderson quote about starting this game at 11 AM local is pretty good too: “You’ve got the whole day ahead of you. If you want to go hunting, fishing, whatever you want to do, shopping, you’ve got plenty of time to do that.”

- In case you’ve been wondering, here’s how the former Wildcats in the NBA have been doing so far this year

- Lute Olson was at the Iowa/Iowa State game, and reminisced on the 1980 Final Four team and Ronnie Lester

Football

- The Pac-12 schedule should be coming out sometime in mid-January

- Oregon introduced their new football coach, and the school president apparently doesn’t want Brady Hoke back as defensive coordinator

- The Pro Football Focus All-Pac-12 team is out. No Arizona players, as expected

- This week’s Arizona in the NFL update was extra depressing

- A few Arizona commits have been picking up interesting offers in recent days. Also, the staff will be hosting a former Ohio State linebacker commit this weekend

- David Lombardi tried his best to recap that awful season

- Colorado’s Mike MacIntyre won the National Coach of the Year Award. There was also apparently a holder of the year award given out, and some Michigan dude won it, but his acceptance video made it worth it:

Here is my full acceptance speech for the 2016 Mortell Holder of the Year Award. Thank you to @SonnyEquipment for the great video work!〽️ http://pic.twitter.com/PRpnw07s7z

— Garrett Moores (@gmoores11) December 9, 2016

Other sports

- Volleyball takes on Washington at 12:30 PM MT on Friday on ESPN3. The Cats will be looking to cut down on errors to make the third time the charm against the Huskies

Tucson news

- Friday night is Teddy Bear Toss night at the Roadrunner game. Don’t bring real bears

- The Arizona Bowl is giving away weird inflatable couch things this year

- The Winter Fourth Ave Street Fair gets underway on Friday

- An assault near Reid Park led to plenty of police presence in the area

- El Rio broke ground on a new health center at 22nd and Kino

Why yes, I'm glad you asked. We *do* put Christmas lights on cacti in Tucson #tistheseason http://pic.twitter.com/2OYGtgiRkx

— Michael Thomas Bogan (@mtbogan) December 6, 2016

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