It might’ve taken more than five minutes of action for the Arizona freshman to get his first bucket, but it didn’t take Koa Peat long to make his presence felt against the defending national champion Florida in the 2025-26 season opener on Monday night.
love this from koa peat
really patient and kept it simple to set up an easy jumper pic.twitter.com/glYZHenPpQ
— Paige (@paigeotto_) November 4, 2025
With the Wildcats trailing nearly the entire first half in the Hall of Fame Series in Las Vegas — they took their first lead at 42-41 with 3:53 remaining — the 6-foot-8 product out of Gilbert Perry High School lit up the stats sheet with 13 points on 5 of 7 shooting, five assists and five rebounds. His play was also clean on the defensive end of the floor with only one foul.
The Chandler native didn’t shoot a single 3, as the Wildcats only got up four en route to a 50-46 halftime lead. The two made 3s came from an unlikely source in German freshman Ivan Kharchenkov, who had eight points on 2 of 6 shooting and three rebounds (one offensive).
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The rest of coach Tommy Lloyd’s squad was being rotated on the regular, as is often the case during the first game of a new season, but others were still making use of their abbreviated moments on the court against the Gators.
Three of Florida’s starting five were returning players from its NCAA Tournament win over Houston — Chinyelu, Thomas Haugh and Alex Condon.
Senior Jaden Bradley posted 12 points (3-for-5 shooting), two assists and two rebounds in the first half and 7-foot-2 junior Motiejus Krivas, in his first official contest since a leg injury last December, made Arizona’s first two baskets and settled for four points on 2 of 2 from the field and three rebounds.
Peat put Florida returning center Rueben Chinyelu on skates and proceeded to do his best Michael Jordan impression, as he knocked down a jumper just inside the free-throw line.
Koa Peat catching up his defender. ? #BearDown pic.twitter.com/JDpKXJQksC
— Arizona Basketball (@ArizonaMBB) November 4, 2025
Peat was pacing all scorers in the opening 20 minutes, had one turnover and sunk three of four free-throw attempts.
TNT commentators expressed how impressed they were at the break, even making comparisons to Duke freshman Cameron Boozer, son of former NBA player Carlos Boozer.
“He reminds me an awful lot of the kid from Duke, Boozer.” ?@coachbrucepearl, @JalenRose and @jamalmashburn were impressed by Koa Peat’s productive first half ?️ pic.twitter.com/yfs23NlwrW
— TNT Sports U.S. (@TNTSportsUS) November 4, 2025
He was listed by ESPN as one of the top 100 players to watch entering the season alongside Bradley.
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