It's Year 1 post-Lonzo and the UCLA basketball team has returned to irrelevance. For better or worse, the Bruins haven't made any headlines since three of their players were busted in China for reenacting scenes from "Ocean's Eleven."
As deflating as the team's 5-4 conference record is the number of empty seats in Pauley Pavilion, with an announced crowd of only 8,028 fans watching a 70-57 victory over California on Thursday.
The football team produced similiar mediocre results and inspired the same level of public apathy, and Jim Mora is now collecting severance checks. It's natural to wonder if UCLA will soon use its Under Armour millions to make a similar change to its crown-jewel basketball program.