As Arizona Wildcats fans almost certainly know by now, Kerr Kriisa is not the sort of guy to hold back words.
So after muddling through four-turnover plagued minutes early in Arizona’s 99-61 win over Texas A&M Corpus, the Arizona point guard told coach Tommy Lloyd that he just didn’t feel too good – and Lloyd said he didn’t question it.
Tubelis had his fourth straight game of 20 points or more, with 20 points and 13 rebounds, while Boswell took advantage of the extended point guard audition to collect eight points, six rebounds and eight assists over 24 minutes.Then there were big men Oumar Ballo and Henri Veesaar who took advantage of the much-smaller Islanders, Ballo collecting 13 points and eight rebounds while Veesaar had 16 points and four rebounds.
But it might not have just been Kriisa’s illness that shook them up. It could have been the fact that the Wildcats were trying to sandwich Tuesday’s game in between a Top 15 win over Indiana last Saturday in Las Vegas and a Top 10 matchup with Tennessee this Saturday. Still, the Wildcats managed to figure it out soon enough. While the Islanders went on to take a 25-24 lead when Ross Williams hit a jumper with 7:28 left in the half, UA had 3-pointers from Henderson, Veesaar and Adama Bal to take a 39-28 lead heading into the final three minutes of the half.
Kriisa, who is Arizona's third-leading scorer , did not return to the court or even the bench in the second half. But again, the Wildcats survived without him. “They’re a really scrappy team, but they also were helping so it gave us more freedom to shoot 3s,” Veesaar said. “I think the young guys really benefited from it.”
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