2016–17 Arizona Wildcats men's basketball team
Name Position Year at Arizona Alma Mater ( year )
Sean Miller Head Coach 8th Pittsburgh ( 1992 )
Joe Pasternack Associate Head Coach 6th Indiana ( 1999 )
Emanuel Richardson Assistant Coach 8th Pittsburgh-Johnstown ( 1998 )
Mark Phelps Assistant Coach 2nd Old Dominion ( 1996 )
Ryan Reynolds Director of Basketball Operations 8th Xavier ( 2007 )
Austin Carroll Assistant Director of Basketball Operations 1st American ( 2014 )
Personnel -- Coaching staff
The 2016-17 Arizona Wildcats men's basketball team represented the University of Arizona during the 2016-17 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The team was led by eighth-year head coach Sean Miller, and played their home games at McKale Center in Tucson, Arizona as members in the Pac-12 Conference. Coming into the '16-'17 season Arizona has been ranked in 78-consecutive AP polls & 81-straight coaches polls. The 97-consecutive weeks in the AP poll is currently the second-longest streak in the nation behind Kansas at 161 weeks. They have been ranked every week in the 2016-2017 season, bringing those totals to 97 weeks for the AP & 100 weeks for the coaches poll. Arizona won its first 10 conference games, the best start since the '97-'98 season when they started 16-0. They finished the season with at record of 31-4, tied at 16-2 with Oregon in Pac-12 play for first place to win their 3rd Pac-12 regular season championship title for the 15th time. The Wildcats entered the Pac-12 Tournament as a 2-seed, the Wildcats defeated 7-seed Colorado in the quarterfinals, 3-seed UCLA in the semifinals and 1-seed Oregon (avenged from 85-58 loss on February 4 in Eugene, OR) in the championship game, Wildcats won their 2nd Pac-12 Tournament championship title for the 6th time since 2002. Arizona received as an automatic bid to the 5th straight NCAA Tournament (34th NCAA tournament appearances) as a 2-seed in the West regional, The Arizona Wildcats defeated the 15-seed North Dakota 100-82 in the first round, 7-seed Saint Mary's 69-60 in the second round and losing to Xavier 71-73 in the Sweet Sixteen.