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UCLA hires Mick Cronin as its new basketball coach

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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