Lauri Markkaen scored twenty-nine points; Allonzo Trier added twenty points and No.7 Arizona shot its way past No.3 UCLA 86-75 on Friday night in the Pac-12 Tournament semi-finals.

Arizona (29-4) took advantage of UCLA’s defensive position and played extremely well on its own end, while avenging the awful loss to Bruins in Tucson about two weeks ago.

The Wilcats shot fifty per cent and made ten to twenty of three point range in front of a rowdy crowd that made T-Mobile Arena feel like McKale Center west.

Arizona will next face No. 5 ranking Oregon on Saturday title match.

The Bruins and Wildcats played two entertaining games during the regular season, each winning on the road.

Arizona won the first game at Westwood in Trier’s first game back from a nineteen game suspension. UCLA got its revenge two weeks ago, outscoring the Wildcats on second chance points to end their 21-game home winning streak.

Arizona was hit badly and its players made sure that they wanted a payback, by rather playing the Bruins than Southern California before that quarterfinal was even played.

Arizona had the last burst, by taking a good forty one – thirty five leads into the halftime after making seven of thirteen from three point range, while the Bruins went two for twelve.

Ball struggled with foul trouble in the quarterfinals against USC and wasn’t much of a factor in the first half, with as many turnovers (four) as points and assists combined.

Arizona kept hitting shots as UCLA continued to fall, by stretching the two sixty three – forty eight as the decibel level in T-Mobile Arena continued to rise

The Bruins tried hard to score, but failed to get shots to consistently fail to make up enough ground.

Ed Sheeran to perform in Arizona this summer

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