For the first time this season, Arizona stayed on the road in between games. Yet despite getting more than two full days’ of rest following its win at Houston, the Wildcats spent much of Tuesday night looking like a team on the second half of an NBA back-to-back with a flight in between.
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Arizona men’s basketball rallies to win at Baylor, moves closer to first Big 12 title
It wasn’t pretty, but in the end the UA moved a step closer to its first Big 12 Conference championship by outlasting Baylor 87-80. The Wildcats (25-2, 13-2) have a 2-game lead in the standings with three remaining and can clinch a share of the title with a win Saturday at home against No. 14 Kansas.
Arizona trailed by seven at halftime and 10 early in the second half, its largest deficit since the UCLA game in mid-November, but outscored the Bears 13-5 over the final 4:04.
Jaden Bradley scored 25 points, hitting a career-high five 3-pointers and adding six rebounds and six assists, while Brayden Burries had 23 including 14 in the final 10:09. Tobe Awaka added a double-double (10 points, 13 rebounds) as the UA outrebounded Baylor 23-11 in the second half to finish plus-7 on the boards.
The UA shot 49.2 percent overall and were 9 of 21 from 3 for the second straight game.
Baylor got 26 from Cameron Carr and 16 from Isaac Williams, who missed two free throws in the final 1:13 while Arizona was 5 of 6 on foul shots down the stretch and 18 of 23 for the game.
Arizona turned the ball over just once in the second half, taking away a key scoring component for the Bears, who had gotten 14 points off UA miscues in the first half.
The UA trailed 41-34 at halftime, its largest deficit of the season after 20 minutes, then Baylor hit a 3 on the opening possession of the second half to build only the third double-digit lead against the Wildcats this season.
Then a switch flipped for Arizona, scoring seven in a row. Another 7-0 run, capped by Motiejus Krivas’ two free throws, put the Wildcats up 48-46. Bradley’s fifth 3-pointer made it 55-51 with 12:15 to go.
Baylor, which shot 53.6 percent in the first half, missed eight straight shots after that opening 3 but then hit 4 of 6. The last two were monster dunks by Caden Powell andCarr to tie it at 55.
That began a stretch of nearly nine minutes where neither team led by more than two points, mostly because neither team could defend. Arizona had four 1-point leads, including off 3s by Ivan Kharchenkov and Anthony Dell’Orso, but Baylor made 10 of 13 shots after the Wildcats took their first lead of the second half.
The UA finally got a stop on defense and Burries scored on the other end for a 78-75 lead with 3:05 remaining. After that the Wildcats kept the lead, icing the game at the line but not before Burries hit a long 2 with 27.8 seconds left for a 4-point lead, a possession that took more than 45 seconds and included an offensive rebound by Kharchenkov.
Arizona had a 10-8 lead, fueled by two early 3s from Bradley, but then Baylor went on a 7-0 and started to take control. The Bears went up 24-16, the first time in Big 12 play the UA had been down more than two scores.
Bradley had 10 of the Wildcats’ first 20 points but then had to sit for a bit with 8:47 left in the first half following a second foul. The foul was upgraded to a flagrant after a Baylor appeal showed he had smacked Obi Agbim in the face while in transition.
The UA defense was porous no matter who was on the court. Baylor scored on consecutive backdoor cuts and then went up 37-28 on a 3-point play by Michael Rataj that sawAwaka join Bradley andKrivas with two fouls.
Arizona got within five but only scored two points over the final 3:43 of the half.
The UA is back home for the next two games, starting with Saturday’s clash against Kansas and then the home finale Monday vs. No. 4 Iowa State.
Former Michigan sophomore defenseman Hunter Hady has transferred to Arizona State, according to an announcement on the team Instagram. The 6’4’’ defenseman will join the Sun Devils for his junior year.
Hady played just two games on Michigan’s blue line this season against Harvard in November and against Bentley in the NCAA regional semifinal. He recorded a secondary assist on junior forward Garrett Schifsky’s goal in the Bentley game for his only point of the year.
Hady’s contributions were more substantive in his freshman season — though his point total remained the same. He played 32 games for Michigan as the team struggled to find defensive pairings that worked throughout the year. Hady was a reliable blue line presence who could be counted on to provide solid defense and not make significant errors.
Prior to playing for the Wolverines, Hady spent three seasons with the Chicago Steel of the USHL, where he played with current Michigan teammates senior defenseman Luca Fantilli, sophomore forward Michael Hage and junior forward Jayden Perron, among others. He joins an Arizona State team that lost ground in the NCHC this season and is looking to reach a Frozen Four for the second time in its program history.
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TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — Jessica Cox, the world’s first licensed armless airplane pilot and a leading advocate for disability-led innovation, will be inducted into the Arizona Aviation Hall of Fame on Friday, May 15, 2026. The induction ceremony, hosted by Rightfooted Foundation International in collaboration with the Pima Air & Space Museum, will take place at the museum from 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Cox’s recognition honors both her historic achievement in flight and her ongoing work expanding access and opportunity for people without arms. Through her leadership at Rightfooted Foundation International (RFI), Cox has championed mentorship, education and practical innovations that help aspiring pilots and families reimagine what’s possible in aviation and beyond.
“Saying I’m proud of her can’t fully encompass what I feel,” said Patrick Chamberlain, Cox’s husband and RFI’s Inclusive Engineering Director. “Jessica’s induction into the Arizona Aviation Hall of Fame recognizes both what she has accomplished and what she continues to do. She has helped shed light on the many pilots with disabilities in aviation and shown the world that disability does not mean inability.”
The 2026 induction class also honors two military aviators: Frank Schiel Jr., a Phoenix-born Flying Tigers veteran credited with seven enemy aircraft destroyed in World War II, and James K. Johnson, a Phoenix-born U.S. Air Force colonel and Korean War double ace credited with ten aerial victories.
The Arizona Aviation Hall of Fame, established in 1985 and housed in the Dorothy Finley Aerospace Gallery at Pima Air & Space Museum, pays tribute to Arizonans who have made significant contributions to aviation and aerospace history.
Since the Arizona Cardinals want to trade back from the No. 3 picks, here are three deals that could work.
The Arizona Cardinals have the third pick in the 2026 NFL draft, which begins this week on Thursday. All the reports coming out are saying that they want to trade out of the pick to acquire more draft picks.
But what does a trade look like and who could be involved?
The Kansas City Chiefs are involved in talks at some level. ESPN’s Adam Schefter expects trade talks to heat up this week.
NFL teams use a variation of a trade value chart when it comes to draft picks. Now, what a team actually is willing to give up can be influenced by potential competition with other teams, but we can’t count on that.
Here is the general trade value chart teams use.
Here are some potential deals that could be done.
Kansas City Chiefs
The Chiefs have two first-round picks, which would be appealing to the Cardinals, who reportedly want to make a move for quarterback Ty Simpson, and the 29th pick might be just the spot to get him.
The third overall pick is worth 514 points.
The Chiefs’ picks at No. 9 (387 points) and No. 29 (202 points) together are worth 589.
To make up the difference, the Cardinals could give up No. 65 (78 points) for a total of 592 points.
One deal could be:
- Cardinals receive get No. 9 and No. 29 (589 points)
- Chiefs receive No. 3 and No. 65 (592 points)
Another could be:
- Cardinals receive No. 9, No. 29, No. 74 and 2027 third-round pick (653 points + value of future third-round pick, which is 36-78 points)
- Chiefs receive No. 3 and No. 34 (689 points)
The Cardinals keep their third-round pick and the Chiefs essentially move back five spots from No. 29.
Dallas Cowboys
The Cowboys have the 12th and 20th picks but no pick in the second round.
Pick No. 12 is 347 points and No. 20 is 269 for a total of 616.
This deal is close:
- Cardinals receive No. 12, No. 20 (616 points)
- Cowboys receive No. 3, No. 65 (592 points)
New Orleans Saints
The Saints are perhaps a dark horse to move up, although they do not have two first-round picks. They have the No. 8 pick, worth 406 points. Their second-round pick, at No. 42, is worth 142 points.
This deal could work:
- Cardinals receive No. 8, No. 42 (548 points)
- Saints receive No. 3, No. 104 (547 points)
Then the Cardinals could use their two second-round picks to then move back into Round 1 to get Ty Simpson.
They could trade No. 34, No. 42 and No. 65 (395 points) for No. 28, No. 38 and No. 106 (398 total points).
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