The season is a few weeks away and though the UCLA Bruins men’s basketball program has but a few games on their schedule, they’re been spotted in the AP Top 25 preseason poll.
Head coach Mick Cronin’s squad checked in at No. 22 on the list, just two spots behind No. 20 Oregon, the only other Pac-12 team in the top 25.
It’s a big uptick for coach Cronin’s group as they received just two votes in the year-end AP Top 25 poll a season ago, before the men’s basketball season was shut down prior to the culmination of the Pac-12 Basketball Tournament and the beginning of the 2020 NCAA Basketball Tournament.