Bill Plaschke: UCLA's toughness and resolve will be tested on ugly road to Final Four
It is glamorously called, "The Road to the Final Four," but on the day UCLA received its coordinates, it was surely struck with a gritty realization. They weren't exactly placed on a road. They were placed on a narrow, winding stretch of mud and rocks. They were placed on a potholed path seemingly headed directly into a ditch. There's Boise State. There's Gonzaga. There's — gasp — Kansas. In ...
It is glamorously called, "The Road to the Final Four," but on the day UCLA received its coordinates, it was surely struck with a gritty realization.
They weren't exactly placed on a road. They were placed on a narrow, winding stretch of mud and rocks. They were placed on a potholed path seemingly headed directly into a ditch.
There's Boise State. There's Gonzaga. There's — gasp — Kansas.
In the NCAA men's basketball tournament pairings announced Sunday, the Bruins were placed in the toughest region against some of the toughest teams and must compete without potentially two of their toughest players.
In other words, they were placed right in Coach Mick Cronin's
