Twenty-seven years after the University of Arizona surprised the men’s college basketball world by taking home the 1997 title, the team’s former players still feel they don’t quite receive the recognition they deserve. Led by a group of almost all underclassmen, the Wildcats fought through their relative inexperience to win the 1997 championship.

“We’re the only team to ever beat three number one (seeds),” Miles Simon, a junior guard on the 1997 team and current Phoenix Suns assistant…

David Bernauer

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