After last season ended, UCLA Basketball Head Coach Steve Alford vowed to make changes so that his team can avoid a meltdown as they did during the Pac-12 portion of the 2015-16 season.
Alford admitted that he did not have his team prepared for conference play and because of it, UCLA went 6-12 in the Pac-12.
Fast forward to November 2016 when the Bruins entered a new era with freshmen Lonzo Ball and TJ Leaf. These two freshmen not only brought offense, but found chemistry with a solid group of veterans.
The results spoke for themselves.