This Wizard isn’t calm.
He paces in front of the bench with his blue mask down on his chin, pointing and screaming.
Sometimes, he looks as if he’s punching an invisible man only he can see.
And in a timeout with about eight minutes remaining in UCLA’s game on Monday, Mick Cronin delivered a message to his players with such intensity that TBS announcers felt compelled to mention it.
“He was telling us it’s not over,” junior forward Cody Riley recalled.
What prompted Cronin’s high-volume address? Abilene Christian had reduced UCLA’s lead to 17.