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UCLA's Juzang dreamed of something like this, but not this

INDIANAPOLIS — Every morning before school, and each night before bed, the eighth-grader would read the messages taped to his bedroom closet. The words, and the handwriting, were familiar, Johnny Juzang having penned each letter to himself as an ode to his basketball ambitions. Make a Final Four. Win a national championship. Win a title at the highest level. It's starting to play out as ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Every morning before school, and each night before bed, the eighth-grader would read the messages taped to his bedroom closet.

The words, and the handwriting, were familiar, Johnny Juzang having penned each letter to himself as an ode to his basketball ambitions.

Make a Final Four. Win a national championship. Win a title at the highest level.

It's starting to play out as scripted, Juzang having commenced a celebratory jig, slipped on a commemorative T-shirt and placed a freshly shorn net around his neck late Tuesday night inside Lucas Oil Stadium.

Juzang's UCLA Bruins are going to the Final Four.

That's not to say

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