Filling the UCLA Hoops Vacancy Will Probably Not Require Approval by the UC Regents

Thomas Joseph-USA TODAY SportsFor the third time in ten days, New York-based “Basketball Insider” Adam Zagoria has shown that he knows very little about UCLA Bruins men’s basketball.

First, Zagoria claimed on Sunday, December 30th, that a source told him UCLA wanted to wait to fire Alford “until Alford’s buyout dropped” to fire him when, in fact, UCLA would have ended up paying Alford the same amount of money moving forward whether it fired him now or kept him employed until May.

Then, later last week, Zagoria claimed that a source told him that influential UCLA alum and donor Casey Wasserman was supporting Rick Pitino to be UCLA’s next head basketball coach. Again, Bruins Nation was there to…