UCLA probably would stage the Big Dance in a ballroom if it could. This team is all about etiquette.
Isaac Hamilton checks into hotel rooms and immediately refolds the towels. Thomas Welsh thanks coaches at the end of practices, asking how he can get better. Bryce Alford is so engaging and gracious with the media that no one seems to mind when interviews run over their allotted time.
There have been moments when it seemed as if the Bruins might have been too nice.
“At times last year, that’s what we were,” Alford said, referring to a season in which the Bruins compiled a losing record for only the fourth time in the last seven decades.