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Arizona's Rich Rodriguez was named the Pac-12 Coach of the Year, and Wildcats linebacker Scooby Wright was tabbed as the Pac-12 Pat Tillman Defensive Player of the Year, the conference announced Tuesday.

Rodriguez led the Wildcats to a 10-2 record overall and a 7-2 mark in conference play, claiming the South Division title and the program's first berth in the Pac-12 Championship Game.

It was the Wildcats' third season in school history with 10 or more wins, and their first 10-win regular season since 1998. Rodriguez's is UA's first coach to earn the honor since Dick Tomey in 1992.

Wright, a sophomore from Windsor, Calif., is Arizona's eighth Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year and the first since Tedy Bruschi in 1995. He is the first underclassman since Washington's Steve Entman (1990) to be named the conference Defensive Player of the Year. Entman is the only other underclassman to have won the award since it began in 1983.

Wright anchored an Arizona defense that led the conference in forced fumbles (six) and ranked third in the nation in sacks (14). A finalist for the Chuck Bednarik Award, Bronko Naguraski Trophy and Rotary Lombardi Award, Wright led both the conference and the nation in tackles for a loss, recording 27.0 total and averaging 2.25 per game.

Wright recorded 139 tackles this season.