Basketball

The number of retired jerseys on the walls of McKale center will double, former Wildcats will return for an alumni game and fans will get a chance to vote on an All-Century team as the UA celebrates 100 years of men's basketball.

Former Arizona standout point guards Jason Gardner (1999-03) and Mike Bibby (1996-98) will have their numbers retired and placed on the wall next to those of 1989 Player of the Year Sean Elliott and 1988 Most Courageous Athlete Steve Kerr.

"(Gardner) certainly deserves it. He has had an unbelievable career · I'd love to see his number go up there next to mine," Kerr said.

The celebration begins Aug. 22 with the Lute Olson Celebrity Roast and Dinner, followed by the annual Bank of Tucson Wildcat Dream Invitational on Aug. 23 and the Lute Olson All-Star Classic on Aug. 24.

Track

Junior pole-vaulter Connie Jerz and freshman distance runner Robert Cheseret finished in the top three, leading the women's and men's track and field teams to 22nd and 37th place finishes, respectively, at the 2003 NCAA Outdoor Championships last weekend.

Thanks to a personal best of 14 feet, 1 1/4 inches (4.30m), Jerz finished second overall in the event. Junior Amy Linnen finished 11th in the pole-vault, clearing the 13-1, 1/2 inches (4.00m) mark.

Cheseret was able to hold off Seth Hejny of Stanford during the last 100 meters of the 5,000-meter event, taking third and a spot on the podium by 0.1 seconds in 5,000 meters final, with a time of 13:52.77. In the women's 5,000 meter final, junior Beth Hoge, had to drop out because of fatigue and soreness.

Golf

Former Wildcat Jim Furyk won the U.S. Open with a record-tying score, the third ex-Wildcat to win a USGA championship in the last year. Former UA golfer Ricky Barnes made his third PGA cut in three tries this year, one of only two of then amateurs to make the cut.

In shooting a four-round total score of 272 last weekend, Furyk joined the ranks of major championship winners and the elite company of Tiger Woods (2000), Lee Janzen (1993) and Jack Nicklaus (1972), tying the three with the record low score at the U.S. Open.

Furyk, who shot 2-over on the final day of competition, played on the UA golf team from 1988 to 1992 and was inducted into the UA Sports Hall of Fame in 1997.

Barnes tied for 58th place with an 11-over 291, his best finish in three career Opens, (2000, 2002 and 2003). Barnes, while playing with Tiger Woods and Ernie Els by virtue of his 2002 U.S. Amateur championship, shot two 71s in the first two rounds before falling on Saturday.