When you ask someone what they think about UCLA basketball, chances are they will bring up John Wooden, the 11 banners, Lew Alcindor, Bill Walton, Ed O’Bannon, Tyus Edney, and Ben Howland, just to name a few. It is a very storied program with a lot of tradition and a panoply of hardware.
There is no doubt that it is one of the blue bloods of all college sports. Unfortunately, that has not been the case in recent years (decades to some).
UCLA basketball won 10 championships under Wooden between 1964 and 1975, cementing him as one of the greatest basketball coaches and UCLA as the greatest program.