This season was looking so promising. The UCLA basketball team was bringing in a Top 5 recruiting class chockful of 4 and 5-star rated recruits. The depth and talent of these young players were going to adjust for the fact that the Bruins do not have a lot of experience.
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UCLA lost three key players from last season as Aaron Holiday and Thomas Welsh made the jump to the NBA and Gyorgy Goloman graduated. The addition of C Moses Brown, PF Shareef O’Neal, SG Jules Bernard, SG David Singleton, C Kenny Nwuba and the talented PG Tyger Campbell was going to keep the Bruins competitive in a year that they could have taken the Pac-12 Conference.