Madness, yes. March, not so much.
The third-ranked UCLA basketball team was rudely shoved into the NCAA tournament Friday night with a Pac-12 tournament exit one day too early and dozens of shots too short.
The regressing Bruins lost to relentless Arizona, 86-75, in the Pac-12 semifinals and now will stumble into the sport’s fabled March Madness with November uncertainty.
It was a night when T-Mobile Arena, filled with mostly Arizona fans, shook with chants of “U of A.”
If the Bruins fans could have been heard, they could not have been blamed for chanting, “What the .