«At the end we could smell it,» said
Wildcat guard Steve Kerr, a UCLA ball boy when he was in
junior high.
That the
Wildcats still managed to run Michigan — a team riding a 14 - game winning streak and boasting the No. 3 defense in the country, according to Ken Pomeroy's adjusted efficiency metric — off the floor is a testament to the power of the offense fueled all season long by its
junior point
guard's efficient scoring and deft playmaking.