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.

UCLA coach Mick Cronin is proving doubters wrong as Bruins on cusp of men's Elite Eight bid

UCLA has been among the biggest surprises in the men's NCAA Tournament, advancing from the First Four to the Sweet 16.

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