Maybe Lonzo Ball wasn’t just shushing a crowd when he held an upright finger in front of his mouth after making a shot on the road against Kentucky a few weeks ago.
Maybe the UCLA freshman point guard was also expressing an opinion about his team’s stature.
The Bruins might be the No. 1 team in the Pac-12 Conference, if not the nation, wildly surpassing expectations given their undefeated start and the stumbles of their conference brethren. Every other Pac-12 team besides USC has lost at least two games, and the Trojans’ unbeaten start has come amid a glorified exhibition schedule that has included only two opponents from a Power Five conference.