Without a senior on the roster and six highly-touted incoming freshmen, the 2018-2019 UCLA basketball team will be young and inexperienced, but nonetheless, they will be a force to be reckoned with both in the Pac-12 and nationally.
You’ve heard that before though, haven’t you? Most years, especially under Steve Alford, it seems as if the Bruins bring in a top-ten nationally ranked recruiting class and have the potential to do something special, but their most recent championship was won all the way back in 1995.
As Alford enters his fifth season in Westwood, he has yet to advance past the Sweet 16 in the NCAA Tournament, something that appears to be his personal kryptonite.