They were led by fourth-year head coach Sean Miller and played home games at McKale Center in Tucson, Arizona as members of the Pac-12 Conference.

Seeded 6th in the West Region of the 2013 NCAA tournament, the team defeated (11) Belmont and (14) Harvard by a combined score of 40 points before losing 73–70 to (2) Ohio State in the Sweet Sixteen.

[1] Sources: Roster Practices began earlier than otherwise allowed by the NCAA in preparation for a six-day foreign tour to the Bahamas in August.

[10] Arizona's annual pre-season Red-Blue scrimmage took place at McKale Center on October 21, selling out for the second-straight season.

Members of the team present included Tucson-native Sean Elliott, Arizona's all-time leading scorer, with 2,555 career points;[12] Steve Kerr, whose 57.8% three-point field-goal percentage in the 1987–88 season is the best in NCAA history (with a minimum of 100 shots made);[13] and Anthony Cook, who recorded a program-best 278 career blocked-shots.