Around this time last year, Jonah Bolden was rumbling across the desert in a pickup truck, headed to Tucson, Ariz.
Like many UCLA students, he followed the basketball team with interest. He'd decided to make a game at Arizona his first road trip.
A friend, Bryce Alford, mentioned that his roommate, Nate Strong, wanted to go too. So the pair loaded into a white Toyota Tacoma and hauled seven hours east across I-10.
Strong had a buddy at Arizona, and the two crashed on his couch. Then they went to cheer on the Bruins.