All Quiet on the UofA Campus

With Chase Budinger two days away from announcing whether he’ll commit to the NBA draft or stay at the University of Arizona for another year, and only the smallest trickle of news coming out of the NCAA Track and Field Championships in Des Moines, this has been an uneventful news week for anyone following the Wildcats.

Until the news came that sophomore Liz Patterson had won the high-jump competition in the National Championships, the majority of news coming out of the UofA had to do with Chase Budinger’s tentative dance with the NBA draft.

Initially noncommittal about his plans regarding the draft, Budinger, who has thus far retained his amateur status by not hiring an agent, recently told the Arizona Daily Star that “he’s received ‘good enough’ information to justify leaving the Arizona Wildcats.” However, he held off on making an official announcement.

Meanwhile, summer classes have started in Tucson, with the handful of Arizona summer students studying, working, and going to class like normal. Groups of high school seniors undergoing New Student Orientation walk around campus accompanied by tour guides, confronted with the unreality that they’ll be living and studying and working here in a few short months.

And in Des Moines, Iowa, we have one reported national champion in Liz Patterson, possibly with more to come.