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TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) Koa Peat scored 18 points, Jaden Bradley added 16 and No. 2 Arizona<\/a> blew out No. 20 Auburn<\/a> 97-68 on Saturday night.<\/p>\n The Wildcats (8-0) won their first three games against ranked teams away from Tucson and made an emphatic statement with their first one at McKale Center.<\/p>\n Arizona used two big runs to build a 20-point lead late in the first half and reeled off another opening the second to run away from the Tigers (7-3).<\/p>\n The Wildcats shot 61% from the floor and had a 60-24 advantage in the paint to make a case for the No. 1 spot in the AP Top 25 following top-ranked Purdue’s loss to No. 10 Iowa State.<\/p>\n Auburn could drop out of the poll following a second straight blowout loss against a top-five team.<\/p>\n Tahaad Pettiford tried to keep Auburn in it, scoring 30 points on 10-of-19 shooting, including 5 of 9 from 3. He got little help; the rest of the Tigers shot 25% and went 1 for 16 from 3.<\/p>\n Auburn had an early 7-0 run, but Arizona ran away after that.<\/p>\n Turning up the defense and getting their high-low game going, the Wildcats scored 12 straight points and added another run of 18-3 to go up 44-24.<\/p>\n Auburn threw up a series of wild shots during a 5 1\/2-minute scoreless streak, but closed with an 8-0 run to pull within 44-32 at halftime.<\/p>\n Arizona again revved up the defense and the crowd to start the second half, holding Auburn without a field goal the first 5 1\/2 minutes during the opening 18-2 run.<\/p>\n Auburn: Plays Chattanooga in Atlanta next Saturday.<\/p>\n Arizona: Play No. 12 Alabama in Birmingham next Saturday.<\/p>\n —<\/p>\n Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here and here (AP mobile app). AP college basketball: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ap-top-25-college-basketball-poll and https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/college-basketball<\/p>\n \n Copyright 2025 STATS LLC and Associated Press. Any commercial use or distribution without the express written consent of STATS LLC and Associated Press is strictly prohibited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) Koa Peat scored 18 points, Jaden Bradley added 16 and No. 2 Arizona blew out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[1982,1398,7,217,231,772,1544],"class_list":{"0":"post-459096","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-arizona-wildcats","9":"tag-auburn-tigers","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-college-basketball","12":"tag-ncaa","13":"tag-ncaa-basketball","14":"tag-ncaab"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115678194264840236","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}