If the Arizona Wildcats want to make a deep postseason run — or any postseason run at all — Caleb Love is going to have to play better. Arizona coach Tommy Llo
College basketball fans are getting the full Caleb Love experience Monday night. After going 1-of-10 from the 3-point line over the first 39 minutes and 58 seconds of the game, Love drained a 60-footer from beyond halfcourt at the buzzer to pull Arizona into a 71-71 tie with Iowa State and send the game into overtime.
Love has had a solid college career. He was the second leading scorer on the UNC team that made a surprise run to the Final Four in 2022 and was the best player on an Arizona team that reached the Sweet 16 last year. He might never have had a more highlight-packed game than what he did on Monday night, though.
Caleb Love sank a 55-foot shot at the buzzer in regulation to force OT, then led Arizona to an 86-75 victory over Iowa State on Monday in Tucson.
Arizona guard Caleb Love went from goat to hero in 2 seconds late Monday night vs No. 3 Iowa State, hitting perhaps the shot of the year.
Arizona, a preseason Top 10 team, has been looking for a big win ever since a brutal stretch in late November, when the Wildcats lost four of five games, three of them to unranked teams. Since then, they’ve won 10 of their last 11.
Arizona players and coaches kept prodding Caleb Love to keep shooting, even on a night when he missed nine of his first 10 3-pointers. So he did, making some McKale
The win was easily the most impressive for Arizona all season and immediately bolstered its likelihood of returning to national hierarchies. Iowa State, which had dropped just two games prior to Monday’s game, falls to 17-3 with the heartbreaking loss.
Arizona Wildcats star Caleb Love sunk a long buzzer-beater to send the game overtime and help the team upset the No. 3 Iowa State Cyclones on Monday.
Arizona and Iowa State played one of the best basketball games of the season on Monday night, kicking off a great week of Big 12 basketball.
Share Tweet Longtime Tucson sports scribe Anthony Gimino, recently with AllSportsTucson.com and PHNX Sports following a career with the Arizona Daily Star and Tucson Citizen, discussed his opinion of the most memorable long-range plays involving Arizona athletics following Caleb Love’s backcourt shot against Iowa State on Monday night at McKale.