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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 […]

UCLA basketball had to work harder than they anticipated in their win over Chaminade at the Maui Invitational. While the 76-48 score wasn’t particularly close, UCLA basketball coach Mick Cronin was forced to play his starters more minutes than he wanted to. With the Bruins set to face Gonzaga on Wednesday night, the team will […]

College basketball coaches play a huge role in terms of the success of a university’s basketball program. Given that the NCAA is one of the most competitive basketball leagues in the nation, bigger institutions are willing to pay more money to more seasoned coaches with a winning history. For this piece, let’s take a closer […]

A week after UCLA guard Jayden Clark declared for the 2023 NBA Draft, Jamie Jaquez Jr. followed suit on Thursday by announcing that he will forgo his remaining college eligibility to enter his name into this year’s draft. Jaquez took to Twitter on Thursday to bid his farewell to UCLA after a four-season run in […]

The UCLA Bruins suffered another devastating loss Thursday at the hands of the Gonzaga Bulldogs in the NCAA Tournament. Coach Mick Cronin spoke on what Jaime Jaquez has meant to the UCLA program and community during his time in Westwood. Mick Cronin on Jaime Jaquez and what he’s meant to UCLA and the entire basketball […]

The UCLA Bruins’ season came to an end at the hands of Gonzaga on Thursday, as the Bulldogs clinched a 79-76 win to punch their ticket to the Elite Eight. UCLA built a 13-point lead at halftime of the contest, but Gonzaga did not throw in the towel. The Bulldogs clawed their way back into […]

After the UCLA men’s basketball program’s season-ending March Madness loss to the Gonzaga Bulldogs, no one should have expected Bruins head coach Mick Cronin to be in a good mood. Cronin, whose team lost on a last-second three by Gonzaga basketball’s Julian Strawther, was in a rotten mood in his postgame press conference, lashing out […]

Mick Cronin and the UCLA Bruins are preparing for a matchup against Drew Timme and the Gonzaga Bulldogs in the Sweet Sixteen. Ahead of the highly anticipated rematch of the 2021 Final Four game, Mick Cronin had some strong statements about the Gonzaga star. “He’s a guy who can always take over a game. You […]

The UCLA Bruins entered their NCAA Tournament West Region matchup against UNC Asheville with a chip on their shoulder. The Bruins were just days removed from their Pac-12 title game defeat to the Arizona Wildcats. While the Bruins won the Pac-12 regular season title, they wound up extending their Pac-12 tournament championship drought to nine […]

Despite losing in the championship of the Pac-12 Tournament, UCLA and Mick Cronin still enter March Madness as one of the top teams in the country. They’re a little bit banged up right now with injuries to two starters in Adem Bona and Jaylen Clark. While Clark is out for the remainder of the season, […]

Selection Sunday is just days away as the rest of the conference tournaments kick off across college basketball. One team worth monitoring is the UCLA Bruins, who are likely headed for a top seed in the Field of 68. However, star guard Jaylen Clark has been dealing with an injury, and head coach Mick Cronin […]

UCLA Bruins head coach Mick Cronin is far from amused by how the selection committee views his team. The NCAA’s selection committee recently released of its top 16 teams for the upcoming March Madness, but UCLA basketball, regarded as one of the best teams in the nation, ranked just No. 8 on the list. Unsurprisingly, […]

Jaime Jaquez Jr. is coming back to UCLA. The Bruins’ star wing announced Monday that he will return for his senior season. In a video he posted to his Twitter account, Jaquez cited “unfinished business”. UCLA made it to the Final Four as an 11-seed in 2021. In 2022, with high expectations, the Bruins bowed […]

Ahead of another hopeful Final Four run, the UCLA Bruins are rewarding Mick Cronin with a long-term extension. The Southern California powerhouse, who face Akron in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on Thursday, have handed Cronin a brand new six-year contract. Via Pete Thamel of ESPN: Source: UCLA is giving coach Mick Cronin […]