UCLA coach Steve Alford said Tuesday that he spoke with Arizona coach Sean Miller to clear the air after the Wildcats coach called what appeared to be a tit-for-tat timeout during the Pac-12 Conference tournament last season with his team leading the Bruins by 11 points and only nine-tenths of a second to play.
"I think we learned from UCLA in that [previous] game [it's] just making sure your team is poised moving forward," Miller said dryly afterward. "When they called their timeout late, we wanted to do the same thing. Make sure our team was poised moving forward.