Only twice in the last 54 years has USC made the NCAA men’s basketball tournament when UCLA did not.
This year could mark the third time.
Who would have imagined?
With a 75-63 defeat at Cal on Thursday, UCLA is on the outside looking in. Anything short of winning the Pac-12 tournament and the Bruins will probably experience March Madness at the NIT, if not their dorm rooms.
And to think of how this season started in Westwood.
There were the victories over then-No. 1 Kentucky, then-No. 20 Gonzaga and then-No.