Tommy Lloyd said after Saturday’s loss to Stanford that Arizona didn’t employ a winning formula.

The Wildcats’ seven-game win streak was snapped by the Cardinal, 88-79. Arizona’s usually potent offense was effectively neutered both by gameplan and game circumstances. Stanford did well to play Arizona’s bigs, but those bigs didn’t help themselves.

Azuolas Tubelis was limited to 17 minutes and managed just four points — his first game this season in which he failed to crack 10 points. Oumar Ballo had just eight points and was left on the bench as the UA tried to close out the game with a small-ball lineup.

The Wildcats shot just 37% in the second half. Stanford shot 61% for the game.

“They kicked our butts in every way, shape, and form, and on the glass too,” Lloyd said on the postgame radio show. “However you slice and dice it, it was a tough one for Arizona. We have to get back and figure it out.”

Arizona’s offense struggled without Tubelis there to run things through. In the postgame press conference, both Lloyd and guard Courtney Ramey lamented the foul issues that plagued Tubelis all evening.

“The foul issues were tough tonight,” Lloyd said. “It just felt like we couldn’t get a favorable whistle in some situations. They’re switching a lot of those things and it seemed like we were always the ones getting called for a foul, whether it was a push-off or whatever. That’s tough to swallow when you’re an inside-out team and you’re the one getting called for offensive fouls.”

And without its bigs operating at their typical level, Arizona took 35 triples. That was a season-high, and it was too many for Lloyd’s liking.

“They did a good job taking away the paint and switching ball screens,” Lloyd said. “We shot 35 3s. That’s just… I don’t know if that’s a winning formula for us.”