TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) \u2014 Ivan Kharchenkov scored 20 points, Caleb Holt added 17 and No. 12 Arizona rolled to a 90-59 victory over Northern Arizona on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
The Wildcats (2-1) used their size advantage to overpower the Lumberjacks (0-3), building a 24-point halftime lead and stretching it with an 18-3 second-half run.<\/p>\n
Arizona shot 62% from the floor, had a 52-20 advantage in the paint and 26 assists on 37 field goals for its second straight blowout win since a season-opening loss to No. 9 UCLA.<\/p>\n
Kharchenkov added seven rebounds and seven assists. Moteijus Krivas had 16 points and seven rebounds.<\/p>\n
Chris Komin led NAU with 17 points and Ryan Abelman added 14.<\/p>\n
The Wildcats played their third straight game without forward RJ Godfrey<\/a>, who’s still waiting to learn his eligibility fate.<\/p>\n It didn’t matter against NAU.<\/p>\n With the Lumberjacks collapsing on Krivas in the paint, Arizona worked the ball around for open looks, making most of them.<\/p>\n The Wildcats shot 17 of 26 from the floor, went 5 for 12 from behind the 3-point line and had a 20-8 advantage in the paint to lead 46-22 at halftime.<\/p>\n NAU was 4 of 16 from 3 and went scoreless over the final 3:21 of the first half.<\/p>\n Arizona didn’t let up in the second half, hitting five of its first eight shots to stretch the lead.<\/p>\n Bryce James, son of NBA star LeBron James, fired up the crowd with a blocked shot on Lucas Toukam’s dunk attempt and followed with a 3-pointer that put the Wildcats up 55-29.<\/p>\n Up next<\/p>\n Northern Arizona plays at No. 24 Kentucky on Friday.<\/p>\n Arizona visits Auburn on Friday.<\/p>\n Sign up for Top 25 poll alerts here<\/a>, visit the Top 25 here<\/a> and see AP\u2019s full men\u2019s basketball coverage here<\/a><\/p>\n \n Success! An email has been sent to with a link to confirm list signup.\n <\/p>\n \n Error! There was an error processing your request.\n <\/p>\n Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) \u2014 Ivan Kharchenkov scored 20 points, Caleb Holt added 17 and No. 12 Arizona rolled…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":913248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[381540,402,2102,398,400,401,99],"class_list":["post-913247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-basketball","tag-arizona-northern-arizona-basketball-score","tag-basketball","tag-men","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-ncaabasketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=913247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/913248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}