Lonzo Ball's arrival on campus at UCLA couldn’t have come at a better time.
A standout freshman point guard, Ball has guided the men’s basketball team to the No. 2 spot in the AP poll and made it easy for UCLA fans to move on from a football season that began with lofty expectations and quickly bred apathy.
Here’s the quick version: The Bruins started the season with a Heisman Trophy candidate, Josh Rosen, at quarterback and were the consensus favorites in the Pac-12 South, but failed to reach a bowl when the requirement to do so was just five wins.