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Mick Cronin’s UCLA men’s basketball team has spent the first two months of the 2024-25 season racking up frequent-flyer miles, with trips to New York, Nebraska and Maryland already completed.
When it comes to other teams’ potential travel woes, Cronin isn’t exactly sympathetic.
In a news conference Friday night following the Bruins’ 94-70 thumping of Iowa, Cronin was asked if he has noticed any “wear and tear” that Big Ten teams making the trip west to face UCLA and USC have shown and whether it’s comparable to what the Bruins have endured going east so frequently.
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After initially asking if the question was a joke, Cronin went off.
“Have you ever looked at the NBA stats, with the gamblers and what all those people do with west versus east?” he said. “Talk to (USC coach) Eric Musselman. Ask him that question. He coached in the NBA. Good luck west going east. Ask me UCLA’s record east of the Mississippi in the last 20 years because when I got the job, I looked it up for scheduling purposes. It’s under .500.
“We have to go back four times. The Big Ten teams get to come to Los Angeles, where it’s 70 degrees, one time a year. They don’t even have to switch hotels. We’re 12 miles apart. Are you kidding me? Please tell me you’re kidding me. Is this a plant? Is this a planted question? You cannot be serious. Meanwhile, we’ve seen the Statue of Liberty twice in the last three weeks while we were landing. We also saw the Capitol building. And we’re still got to go back. And then we’ve got to go back for the Big Ten tournament.”
Mick Cronin on UCLA’s travel, and if other teams coming out west balances it out:
“Oh, a Big 10 team has to come to LA, where it’s 70 degrees, once. You’re asking me to feel sorry because Iowa had to come to LA for a few days? We’ve seen the Statue of Liberty twice in 3 weeks!” pic.twitter.com/NQgmenQvVY
— The Field…
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Publish date : 2025-01-18 18:11:00
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