This morning’s news roundup is going to be shorter than most. That’s because there just aren’t as many postgame quotes as there usually are following a typical Bruin game, which pretty much explains where this year’s team is after a disasterous final road trip of the season that left the team in seventh place in the Pac-12 when they could have finished as high as third, and, frankly, I don’t want to spend a lot of time re-hashing yesterday’s loss to the Utah Utes.
Ben Bolch of the LA Times opens his article by pretty much summing up the state of things at this point:
UCLA knew before tip-off that it would be without its top big man because of a suspension and had no chance for a first-round bye in the Pac-12 Conference tournament based on results earlier in the day.