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UCLA’s fun season ends in bittersweet fashion

UCLA’s 2017 season brought us basketball we hadn’t seen in Westwood in a long time.

But the end felt like just more of the same.

After 37 games marked by incredible offense and suspect defense, the Bruins ended the 2017 season in the Sweet 16 for the third time in four years with an 86-75 loss to Kentucky in Memphis on Friday night.

UCLA scored more than anyone this season, and Lonzo Ball, TJ Leaf and company were downright spectacular and did something that hasn’t been done at UCLA in awhile:

Make UCLA basketball fun again.