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Upsets can happen at any moment in college basketball and UCLA basketball, and head coach Mick Cronin had a taste of that. They defeated Michigan State, coached by Tom Izzo, 63-61 on the Bruins home court on Tuesday. Following the win, Izzo briefly told reporters that Cronin’s coaching style is working. “You better hope he […]

Mick Cronin revealed the key for UCLA basketball after the 63-61 win over No. 9 Michigan State. After getting off to a slow start in the Big Ten, the Bruins are picking up steam with their second straight ranked win. With its recent signature win, UCLA is now 17-6 and 8-4 in its new conference. […]

Big Ten basketball has not been kind to UCLA basketball, and their head coach, Mick Cronin. Many stories have circulated since conference play began. For starters, Cronin called out UCLA basketball’s ‘delusional’ players after a loss against Michigan. Then, when they traveled to play Maryland, they made headlines once again. The head coach was ejected […]

To say UCLA basketball coach Mick Cronin was not happy after the Bruins’ 94-75 loss to Michigan yesterday would be an understatement. Cronin, known for his sideline outbursts and comments made out of frustration, stayed true to form in the postgame press conference Tuesday after his team allowed Vladislav Goldin to score 36 points and […]

UCLA basketball coach Mick Cronin knows that his team will be much better this season. Cronin is issuing a take that he hopes will light a fire under Bruins fans. “Night and day,” Cronin said on the College Hoops Today program, per Sports Illustrated. “Our NIL program just wasn’t what it needed to be. There’s […]

The UCLA basketball team will have a schedule that they aren’t used to this season as it will be their first year in the Big Ten. They will still have conference games against USC, Washington and Oregon, but everything else will be new for the Bruins. UCLA also just announced that they will play Gonzaga […]

UCLA basketball coach Mick Cronin is offering his opinion about why his school is doing well in the transfer portal. Cronin says UCLA is able to offer a strong financial package to prospective players. “Our NIL grew exponentially,” Cronin said, per the Los Angeles Times. “All you have to do is look at our recruiting […]

The UCLA basketball program is reloading after a challenging 2023-24 season. The Bruins will have a fearsome squad going into 2024-25, which is further highlighted by their college basketball transfer portal additions. Former Oklahoma State basketball forward Eric Dailey Jr. announced his commitment to UCLA on Tuesday and spoke very highly of Coach Mick Cronin […]

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 […]