Miller: What a difference a year makes for UCLA's Bryce and Steve Alford

View slideshow UCLA coach Steve Alford and son Bryce were heavily criticized before the struggling Bruins turned things around this season. (Kevin Sullivan, Orange County Register/SCNG)LOS ANGELES – UCLA basketball, here, on the first day of March, is all about what could be coming, the possibilities as elevated as the Bruins themselves, and they’re all the way up to No. 3.

First, though, comes recognition of where this program has been. For the past four seasons. For a coach and a player. For a father and a son.

“It will be emotional,” Bryce Alford said, entering his final stretch at UCLA playing for his dad, Steve. “But we’ve done a great job of holding in our emotions as a father-son duo.…