Led by the success of their men’s basketball team last season, the Arizona Wildcats can hold their heads high when it comes to success across the athletic department.
Released by CBS Sports college sports vest Monday’s 2021-22 rankings have the Wildcats ranked 30th among the 130 sports programs listed.
Since 2013, CBS Sports has compiled a Best in College Sports award that employs a weighted formula that recognizes the most popular sports at each school, including soccer, men’s and women’s basketball.
Arizona had a memorable season in various sports, including a 33-4 men’s basketball team finish and a #1 seed in the NCAA Tournament in head coach Tommy Lloyd’s first season.
Arizona fell to Houston in Suite 16.
Arizona Women’s Basketball also had an impressive season, going 21-8. Arizona lost to North Carolina in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.
Football is where the Wildcats struggled hard last season, with the program going 1-11 and dying last in the Pac-12.
Rival Arizona State ranked 57th on the list and finished 2021-22 as the eighth-best Pac-12 team.
After entering the season with high expectations, the Sun Devil men’s basketball went 14-17 and closed out the year with a loss to Stanford in the Pac-12 tournament.
An ongoing NCAA investigation into the team’s hiring practices led Arizona State Football to go 8-5, losing 20-13 to Wisconsin in the Las Vegas Bowl while losing several assistants.
After winning their first five out of six games, the Sun Devils lost momentum towards the end of the season, including two straight losses to BYU and Utah, and all hope of a chance to play in the pack was lost. -12 championships.
The Sun Devil Women’s Basketball went 12-14 this past season under Charlie Turner-Thorn’s final season of coaching. The team lost six games in a row against the Pac-12 while she finished 4-9.
The CBS Sports rankings saw the Michigan Wolverines finish as the most consistent college track and field program, winning for the second time in three years.
Voting was based on program success in three sports: soccer, men’s basketball, and women’s basketball, and two “wilds” for the school’s most successful spectator sports: baseball, softball, volleyball, soccer, gymnastics, lacrosse, hockey and wrestling. card is processed. .
