UCLA hires Mick Cronin as its new basketball coach
by Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times
Apr 09, 2019
4 minutes
LOS ANGELES - And on the 100th day, UCLA found its new basketball coach.
The Bruins hired Cincinnati's Mick Cronin on Tuesday, ending a lengthy search that started on the final day of December and concluded one day after the final game of the college basketball season.
Cronin agreed to a six-year, $24 million contract that will nearly double his $2.2 million salary with the Bearcats. He is scheduled to be introduced late Wednesday morning during a news conference at Pauley Pavilion.
Cronin could be considered UCLA's Plan C after a messy sequence of events prevented the school from hiring Texas Christian's Jamie Dixon or Tennessee's
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