From an auspicious start, through an up-and-down season, to a fittingly frustrating final defeat, the Bruins' 2017-18 season is finally laid to rest by a team UCLA could have beaten, should have beaten, and would have beaten except for one glaring problem: The Bruins were a one-man team, and one-man teams seldom win championships.
Bob Lanier, the most famous St. Bonaventure alum who played in a Final Four with UCLA in 1970, was known for his size-22 shoes. Little did we know that there was one other person on that floor who had bigger shoes. Since 1995 Gene Bartow, Gary Cunningham, Larry Brown, Larry Farmer,Walt Hazzard, Jim Harrick, Steve Lavin, Ben Howland and now Steve Alford combined have yet to fill the wizard's shoes.