‘Totally a dream’: Ex-Salpointe star Evan Nelson excited for grad season at Arizona


After a long day of Harvard basketball and academics, as the evenings finally wound down in the Boston area, Evan Nelson would sometimes flip on a game somewhere else to see what’s up.Unless the Arizona Wildcats were playing. Then, no.“If I’m watching the Suns or if Arizona is playing Oregon, it’s like ‘All right, I should be in bed,’” said Nelson, the former Salpointe High School standout who committed to the Wildcats last week as a grad transfer. “Anytime the Pac-12 was playing, it was ‘I’m up too late.’”Not that Nelson didn’t want to stay up any later. As a Tucson native who absorbed the program as a youth, especially as the Wildcats rose under Sean Miller, Nelson always had an eye on McKale Center.And part of his heart.“I grew up” watching them, Nelson told the Star …

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