UCLA basketball coach Mick Cronin is proving doubters wrong

By Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY: Dressed in a UCLA letter jacket replicating the same one late coach John Wooden once wore in his heyday, Mick Cronin fielded questions from reporters about his team’s surprise 2021 men’s NCAA Tournament run — a No. 11 seeded team that fell to the bubble now among the Sweet 16 teams.

“Nobody has 11 banners,” Cronin said of Wooden’s 10 national championship banners that hang in Pauley Pavilion, alongside the most recent title in 1995. Those banners also hang over the coaches that have followed Wooden at one of the sport’s most storied basketball programs.




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