The UCLA Basketball team will once again start their season in the AP Top 25 as they come in ranked 21st in the preseason poll. This is the second year in a row that the Bruins have been ranked in the preseason Top 25 after their disasterous 2015-16 season.
UCLA bounced back last year with an amazing recruiting class that was led by Lonzo Ball and TJ Leaf who got them back to the NCAA tournament. UCLA finished 31-5 and made it back to the Sweet 16.
That feat will be difficult to repeat as the Bruins lost four of their five starters and five total players to both graduation in the NBA draft this last not off-season.