The Wildcats, led by second year head coach Sean Miller, played their home games at the McKale Center and are members of the Pacific-10 Conference.

Miller was named the Pac-10 Conference 2011 John R. Wooden Coach of the Year.

The Wildcats finished the regular season 25–6, 14–4 in Pac-10 play to win the twelfth Pac-10 regular season championship title for first time since 2005 and lost in the championship game of the 2011 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball tournament to Washington.

They received an at-large bid in the 2011 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, as the No.

In the Elite Eight, they lost to the eventual national champion Connecticut.