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Next up for Cougs, unique Arizona teams

TONY BENNETT		By HOWIE STALWICK Cougfan.com Senior Correspondent Date: Jan 22, 2008 PULLMAN--Basketball teams in the Pac-10 have dramatically upgraded the emphasis on D in recent years but Arizona stubbornly refused to stray from their run, gun and maybe-possibly-perhaps pretend to defend style of play. That changed after last season, when longtime UA coach Lute Olson lured ex-Wildcat assistant Kevin O’Neill back to Tucson to teach the gritty man-to-man defense O’Neill cherishes.

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