Arizona's first Final Four team, led by Sean Elliott and Steve Kerr in 1988, launched a superpower
The 1987-88 Arizona Wildcats were the first from their program ever to reach the NCAA Final Four, and all the greatness that's developed in the program since was built on their foundation.
Arizona's first Final Four team, led by Sean Elliott and Steve Kerr in 1988, launched a superpower originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . INDIANAPOLIS – Sean Elliott played nearly 1,000 games that counted between his dozen years in the NBA and four in college baskeball with the Arizona Wildcats, which of course concluded nearly 1,000 times with his teammates in the locker room.
And yet there was something about that one occasion at Seattle’s Kingdome he cannot forget and does not wish to forget, even 38 years later. A 6-8 small forward during his playing career, Elliott is Arizona’s career scoring leader, with 2,555 points. He was named Player of the Year for 1989 by the National Association of Basketball Coaches.
He was a two-time first-team All-America selection, after his junior and senior seasons. On that day in March 1988, though, Arizona crushed North Carolina in the NCAA West Region final and earned their school’s first-ever appearance in the Final Four. And so Elliott tells that story to young people who then were years away from being born because it conveys the immense rewards available to a group willing to embrace and support the collective endeavor to achieve a common goal.
MARCH MADNESS HQ: Live NCAA bracket | TV schedule | Latest news and more “It’s hard to put into words how joyful that locker room was. I’ve never seen people react to any individual award the way our guys were that day,” Elliott told The Sporting News. “We were just overjoyed.
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