If you want to win your conference, you have to win on the road. In the Pac-12, that becomes even more crucial largely due to the way the conference schedule is set up as teams have to go on two-game road trips. For UCLA basketball, especially under Steve Alford, it has not gone well.
Every season, Pac-12 teams have four two-game road trips, which does not include an away game to their rival/travel partner’s arena. So in five years, Alford had 20 chances to get the elusive road sweep. In that time, he has only managed to claim three, all of which came in the same season.