The mood around UCLA basketball has turned ugly. A combination of widely felt embarrassment, evolving at an alarming rate toward an angry indifference toward the program’s long malaise, has led the scribes to coin a new term: Embifference, to capture the reality.
And, now, after yet another embiffering loss at home, this time to a good but never-should-beat-UCLA-at-Pauley-Pavilion Belmont Bruins team, the UCLA Bruins are embarking on a last difficult road swing before the Pac-12 gauntlet begins. They will leave Los Angeles this week with a disappointing 9-3 record, having also been smoked by the two good teams they have played in highly-ranked North Carolina and Michigan State.