NAU almost too much for Wildcats to handle

Published Dec. 16, 2010 10:52 p.m. ET

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Anthony Gimino
FOXSportsArizona.com

TUCSON -- The jokes started about seven or eight minutes into the game.

Which team had been snowed in this morning? Which team just got off the bus?

If you thought all the drama about Thursday night's game between Northern Arizona and Arizona would be the Lumberjacks' ill-fated travel plans to McKale Center, think again.

Snowed in at Flagstaff in the morning, the team had to bus to Phoenix, fly to Tucson, need a 10-motorcycle police escort to the arena