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UCLA basketball coach Mick Cronin appeared on The Herd today to discuss the national championship game between UConn and Purdue, as well as John Calipari leaving Kentucky for the Arkansas job, and he had a funny response to being asked what he would do if he were to receive a call regarding the Kentucky head […]

USC guard Bronny James understandably had a rocky freshman campaign following his cardiac arrest in a preseason practice. His father, LeBron James, has openly expressed his desire to play with him in the NBA, but that doesn’t seem like a realistic option anytime soon. UCLA basketball head coach Mick Cronin hopped on FS1 talk show […]

UCLA basketball is remembering one of their own. Bruins’ student manager Alex Moriarty passed away after fighting a battle with brain cancer, per the school. Moriarty is being remembered by head coach Mick Cronin as a young man who loved basketball. Our basketball program mourns the loss of student manager Alex Moriarty, who has passed […]

UCLA’s string of NCAA Tournament appearances under head coach Mick Cronin will come to an end this season after the Bruins loss to Oregon in the second round of the Pac-12 Tournament. It’s been a tough year for the Bruins and Cronin who has garnered headlines this season for some of his postgame comments. But […]

Despite some intriguing additions to the roster, UCLA basketball could not survive the departures of Jaime Jaquez Jr., Tyger Campbell, Jaylen Clark and Amari Bailey. Mick Cronin and the Bruins are unlikely to go dancing this March after reaching the Sweet Sixteen in consecutive NCAA Tournament trips and going on a surprise Final Four run […]

The UCLA basketball team has had a very up and down season this year, and so has sophomore forward Adem Bona. Inconsistency has been a problem for the Bruins. They started off the season very poorly, then won six games in a row, and now they’re back to their losing ways. Inconsistency has also been […]

There are not many veterans in the UCLA basketball program which means the team will be prone to a lot of mistakes. This expands Coach Mick Cronin’s head coaching duties by a lot as he hopes to guide this team to stellar runs in the Pac-12 tournament and, maybe, March Madness. Those woes seem to […]

UCLA basketball suffered its fourth straight loss at the hands of Washington State basketball on Sunday. Despite leading by as much as 13 points, the Bruins had no answer for Jaylen Wells and the Cougars, who used a 22-7 run in the second half to notch the comeback win. Following the game, UCLA head coach […]

After starting out the 2023-24 season poorly, the UCLA Bruins had been playing better basketball as of late. However, UCLA dropped a game over the weekend against crosstown rival USC. It was a poor loss as USC has been hovering near the bottom of the Pac-12 standings all season. In any case, the Bruins have […]

UCLA basketball head coach Mick Cronin has a coaching style that certainly involves some yelling, but his Bruins players don’t mind it. Cronin had been successful during his time at UCLA and he has even taken the Bruins to Final Four. Clearly, something that he is doing is working. There is much more to his […]

UCLA basketball guard Sebastian Mack was ejected from the game on Sunday when the Bruins took on Utah basketball. Mack was going through a screen and appeared to raise his elbow up and strike a Utah player. UCLA doesn’t play again until Saturday, and it sounds like Mack will be able to play. UCLA's Sebastian […]

The UCLA basketball program dropped to Utah at home on Sunday by the score of 70-69, and head coach Mick Cronin got real on if his young team is mature enough to bounce back in the next game against USC on Saturday. “We’ll see. I mean, if you are haven’t matured by now, we have […]

The UCLA basketball team suffered a tough loss against Utah basketball on Sunday. The Bruins had put together a nice six-game win streak, and it looked like they were going to make it seven against the Utes. UCLA led for much of the game, but Utah ended up winning at the buzzer. The Bruins took […]

The UCLA basketball team picked up a big win on Thursday night at home against Colorado. It was fairly close the entire game, but the Bruins did let up a couple big leads. They led by 13 at one point in the second half, and they also led by seven with two minutes to play […]

UCLA basketball coach Mick Cronin is being honest about the play of his star forward Adem Bona. While Cronin believes his big man is one of the best in college basketball, Cronin does see a weakness in Bona. “Fouls too much,” Cronin said, per On3. “Everybody’s strength is their weakness – always. His aggression is […]

UCLA basketball has one standard, and that’s winning. Nothing else is expected in Westwood. The Bruins are 11-11 in the 2023-24 season, their worst start in several years. Head coach Mick Cronin and UCLA basketball were competing for a National Title with Jaime Jaquez Jr. and Johnny Juzang, which seems like just yesterday. The Bruins […]

The UCLA basketball program has finally reached a .500 record with 11 wins. Mick Cronin enabled his offense to start doing better which led to their third-straight win of the season. There were a lot of other factors that got them their groove but their ability to crash the boards has been special. After their […]

On Thursday, UCLA basketball head coach Mick Cronin and his Bruins improved to 10-11 on the young season with a big 71-63 home win over the Oregon State Beavers. The game was very closely contested at halftime, with UCLA leading Oregon State by just two points; however, the Bruins were able to take off down […]

UCLA basketball coach Mick Cronin is sending some words of encouragement to his coaching colleague Andy Enfield at USC. UCLA recently knocked off USC and the Trojans are mired in a disappointing 8-12 season. “Andy’s a great coach. Obviously, losing Collier threw everything off for them. They got too many guys in and out,” Cronin […]

UCLA basketball has a tradition under Mick Cronin. The Hungry Dog Award goes to the best defender on the team, and the player that shows the most hustle on both ends of the floor. Bruins sophomore Adem Bona has been vocal about his desire for the award. Bona is the starting center for UCLA basketball, […]

The UCLA and USC basketball rivalry game has so much more stakes than school pride this year. Both programs have an eight-win record and have yet to come close to guaranteeing a spot for March Madness. Mick Cronin knows there will be one player among the Trojans that he has to watch out for, Boogie […]

The UCLA basketball team had a huge opportunity in front of them on Saturday to pick up a potential season-changing win, but it fell right through their fingertips. The Bruins hit the road to take on #12 Arizona basketball, and they started out the game on fire, making six of their first 1o three-pointers. UCLA […]

The UCLA basketball team is off to a poor start this season as the Bruins are currently 8-10 overall and 3-4 in Pac-12 play. UCLA has to start turning things around quickly if they want any chance of making the NCAA Tournament, and their last game against Arizona State was a good start. The Bruins […]

The UCLA basketball team has not started the 2023-24 season like they anticipated. The Bruins are currently 8-10 overall and 3-4 in Pac-12 play. They did show some promise in their most recent game against Arizona State. UCLA trailed by 15 points in the second half before coming back for the win. The Bruins still […]

The UCLA basketball team has high hopes coming into every season, but so far this year, the Bruins have not met expectations. Through 17 games this season, UCLA is 7-10 overall and they are 2-4 in Pac-12 conference play. This is a bit of a surprise as the Bruins have some talented players on the […]

The UCLA Bruins have been struggling this season. After losing several players from last season’s lineup including Tyger Campbell, Amari Bailey, Jaylen Clark, Jaime Jaquez and David Singleton, the Bruins came into this season with one of the youngest and inexperienced teams in the Pac-12 Conference. Wins have been hard to come by, but the […]

The Utah Utes had been on the losing end of seven consecutive meetings with the UCLA Bruins going into Thursday night’s game, and apparently that had been the cause for quite a bit of pent-up frustration. Or at least that’s what the scoreboard showed at the end of the game. Despite only trailing by ten […]

The UCLA basketball team has had a very rough start to the season so far, and it’s a bit of a surprise given the talent of this team and the success that head coach Mick Cronin has had in his career. The Bruins are currently 6-9 overall and 1-3 in Pac-12 play. The team has […]

UCLA basketball coach Mick Cronin didn’t meet with the news media following the Bruins’ loss to California on Saturday. The assistant coach Rod Palmer did the job because Cronin was addressing the team for an extended period of time, per the Los Angeles Times. “He’s still talking to the team and we didn’t want to […]

The UCLA basketball team suffered a brutal 59-53 loss to Stanford on Wednesday to fall to 6-8 on the season, and head coach Mick Cronin did not pull any punches when talking about his players and what the problem has been for the team this season. “The most important thing for a teacher is for […]

UCLA basketball coach Mick Cronin is very happy with how his team played in a 69-62 victory over Pac-12 conference rival Oregon State. Cronin lauded his team’s defensive play, per a statement from UCLA’s athletics department. “So, our defense was improved in a lot of ways. We forced 14 turnovers. When you can make the […]

Mick Cronin’s patience with the UCLA basketball program is starting to thin out after now getting a six-loss to five-win record. The Bruins had a tough battle with Maryland but stars like Adem Bona were not able to show up. To add more insult to injury, the squad had allowed Jahmir Young to completely torch […]

UCLA basketball is living up to expectations to begin the 2023-24 campaign, sitting at 11-0 and a perfect 6-0 in Pac-12 play. With a nice mix of American and international talent, the Bruins are a force to be reckoned with. This program does a fantastic job of recruiting from all over and it appears Mick […]

The UCLA basketball program dropped to 5-4 on the season with a 67-60 loss to Ohio State on Saturday, and UCLA head coach Mick Cronin explained what the team has to improve on to get better as the season goes on. “We can’t impose our will,” Mick Cronin said, via UCLA men’s basketball on Twitter. […]

The UCLA basketball team has shown the common characteristics of a young team so far this season. It’s clear that the Bruins have talent, but there have been some inconsistencies throughout the first month of the season as well. That rings true for freshman center Aday Mara who is adjusting to college basketball at UCLA. […]

The UCLA basketball program is not looking like its old blue-blooded self. Mick Cronin’s squad is just a game above .500 after a deflating loss to Villanova. Lazar Stefanovic tried to keep the game close but it was to no avail. A key reason for the unfortunate defeat was Adem Bona being a non-factor in […]

UCLA basketball appeared to have a bit of a Maui Invitational hangover on Thursday night, after nearly imploding versus UC Riverside at Pauley Pavilion. The Bruins ultimately avoided the upset, thanks to some fortuitous circumstances. After blowing a double-digit lead in the second half, UCLA found itself in need of a bucket late. Enter Dylan […]

The UCLA Bruins absorbed yet another loss in the 2023-24 college basketball season on Wednesday, as they fell prey to the Gonzaga Bulldogs in the consolation round of the Allstate Maui Invitational in Honolulu, 69-65. Freshman center Aday Mara started at the center slot for UCLA basketball in the game, but he lasted just three […]

Mick Cronin had his fair share of lapses and highlights during the UCLA squad’s loss to Marquette. He saw Sebastian Mack step up for the Bruins but it was just not enough to get them over the hump. Shaka Smart’s wits along with Oso Igdoharo’s on-court leadership allowed for the Golden Eagles to strike their […]