Playing that often won't be replicated again until the Pac-12 Tournament.
Bruce Pascoe LAHAINA, Hawaii — Even though Tommy Lloyd has coached in five previous Maui Invitationals as a Gonzaga assistant, he found Sunday that things are a little different for the head guy.
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A streak of competitiveness might still, occasionally, seep into his game even though he says he did not practice for Sunday’s contest. As Lloyd noted, the only other time college basketball teams face that sort of gauntlet is during their conference tournaments; Pac-12 teams can play up to four games in four days in their Las Vegas-based event.
Dutcher was an assistant coach to Steve Fisher when Arizona beat SDSU in the 2014-15 Maui Invitational championship game and a head coach in 2018-19 when the Aztecs went 1-2 and did not play Arizona.“There is no routine because you get here and you’ve got 20 minutes to warm up sometimes so you’ve got to shorten your warm up,” Dutcher said. “Then the locker rooms is a curtain. So nothing really prepares you for getting ready for the game.
Lloyd, who later picked up several national coach of the year honors, even had to pivot after point guard Kerr Kriisa went down with an ankle injury in the quarterfinals.
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