For this news roundup, let me lead with a story I both love and hate on UCLA’s 69-64 win over the Arizona Wildcats. LA Times columnist Dylan Hernandez writes UCLA coach Mick Cronin delivering unexpected with current roster:
There’s a new wizard in Westwood.
Blasphemy? Probably, especially on a campus where there is a bronze statue of John Wooden.
But what other way is there to convey the scale of the miracles Mick Cronin has performed in his first season as UCLA’s basketball coach?
Cronin will presumably have better teams in the future.