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====Men's basketball====
{{main|Arizona Wildcats men's basketball}}

The [[basketball|men's basketball]] team has been one of the nation's most successful programs since [[Lute Olson]] was hired as head coach in 1983, and is still known as a national powerhouse in Division I men's basketball.<ref>via ''[[Associated Press]]''. [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=RM&p_theme=rm&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB4D99EDE7BFE07&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM "Huskies pumped up after upset over no. 7 Arizona"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121024164759/http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=RM&p_theme=rm&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB4D99EDE7BFE07&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |date=October 24, 2012 }}, ''[[Rocky Mountain News]]'', January 18, 1992. Accessed March 6, 2009. "The downtrodden Washington Huskies are off to a 2–0 start while coach Lute Olson's perennial powerhouse Arizona Wildcats are 1–2. So what's going on?"</ref> Between 1985 and 2009, the team reached the NCAA Tournament 25 consecutive years, which is the third-longest streak in [[NCAA]] history, after Kansas, with appearances from 1990–present, [[North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball|North Carolina]], with 27 consecutive appearances from 1975 to 2001.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-men/article/2015-12-28/college-basketball-longest-active-ncaa-tournament-streaks|title=College Basketball: Longest active NCAA Tournament streaks|access-date=February 21, 2018|agency=Associated Press|archive-date=February 22, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180222044107/https://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-men/article/2015-12-28/college-basketball-longest-active-ncaa-tournament-streaks|url-status=live}}</ref> The Wildcats have reached the [[NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship#Final Four|Final Four]] of the NCAA tournament in [[1988 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament|1988]], [[1994 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament|1994]], [[1997 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament|1997]], and [[2001 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament|2001]]. In 1997, Arizona defeated the [[Kentucky Wildcats|University of Kentucky]], the then-defending national champions, to win the NCAA National Championship ([[NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship]]) by a score of 84–79 overtime; Arizona's first national championship victory. The 1997 championship team became the first and only in [[NCAA]] history to defeat three number-one seeds en route to a national title (Kansas, North Carolina, and Kentucky—the North Carolina game being the final game for longtime UNC head coach Dean Smith). Point guard [[Miles Simon]] was chosen as 1997 [[NCAA basketball tournament Most Outstanding Player|Final Four MVP]] (Simon was also an assistant coach under Olson from 2005 to 2008). The Cats also boast the third-highest winning percentage in the nation over the last twenty years. Arizona has won a total of 28 regular season conference championships in its program's history, and 6 PAC-12 tournaments. Since 2005, Arizona has produced 17 NBA draft picks.<ref name="Draft">{{cite web|title=Nine Pac-10 Players Selected In 2009 NBA Draft |url=https://www.si.com/college-basketball/2015/06/24/nba-draft-most-players-college-conference-kentucky-kansas-acc |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150626115755/http://www.si.com/college-basketball/2015/06/24/nba-draft-most-players-college-conference-kentucky-kansas-acc |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 26, 2015 |date=June 26, 2009 |publisher=Pacific-10 Conference |access-date=September 19, 2009 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.arizonawildcats.com/documents/2016/10/26/Final_2016_17_Media_Guide_for_Online.pdf|title=ArizonaWildcats.com {{!}} University of Arizona Athletics|website=www.arizonawildcats.com|language=en|access-date=June 6, 2017|archive-date=February 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170211155310/http://www.arizonawildcats.com/documents/2016/10/26/Final_2016_17_Media_Guide_for_Online.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.wildcat.arizona.edu/article/2017/03/arizona-on-top-of-ducks-at-halftime-of-pac-12-championship-game|title=Arizona captures Pac-12 Tournament championship with 83–80 victory over the Oregon Ducks|work=The Daily Wildcat|access-date=June 6, 2017|archive-date=April 3, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170403082003/http://www.wildcat.arizona.edu/article/2017/03/arizona-on-top-of-ducks-at-halftime-of-pac-12-championship-game|url-status=live}}</ref>

The Wildcats play their home games at the [[McKale Center]] in Tucson. A number of former Wildcats have gone on to pursue successful professional NBA careers (especially during the Lute Olson era), including [[Gilbert Arenas]], [[Richard Jefferson]], [[Mike Bibby]], [[Jason Terry]], [[Sean Elliott]], [[Damon Stoudamire]], [[Khalid Reeves]], [[Luke Walton]], [[Hassan Adams]], [[Salim Stoudamire]], [[Andre Iguodala]], [[Channing Frye]], Brian Williams (later known as [[Bison Dele]]), [[Sean Rooks]], [[Jud Buechler]], [[Michael Dickerson]], [[Chase Budinger]], [[Jordan Hill (basketball)|Jordan Hill]], [[Jerryd Bayless]], [[Derrick Williams (basketball)|Derrick Williams]], [[Kadeem Allen]], [[Aaron Gordon]], [[Solomon Hill (basketball)|Solomon Hill]], [[Rondae Hollis-Jefferson]], [[Stanley Johnson (basketball)|Stanley Johnson]], [[T. J. McConnell|T.J McConnell]], [[Lauri Markkanen|Lauri Elias Markkanen]], [[Kobi Simmons]], [[Steve Kerr]], [[Deandre Ayton]], [[Rawle Alkins]], and [[Allonzo Trier]]. [[Kenny Lofton]], now best known as a former Major League Baseball star, was a four-year letter winner as a Wildcat basketball player (and was on the 1988 Final Four team), before one year on the Arizona baseball team. Another notable former Wildcat basketball player is [[Eugene Edgerson]], who played on the 1997 and 2001 Final Four squads, and spent some of his professional careers as one of the [[Harlem Globetrotters]] as "Wildkat" Edgerson.