Pizza Parlor Madness: UCLA

Nickname: Bruins
Colors: Light Blue and Gold
Location: Los Angeles
Enrollment: 38,000
Conference: Pacific Ten
Distinguished Alumni: Sean Astin, Elizabeth Berkley, Jack Black, Lloyd Bridges, Francis Ford Coppola, James Dean, Danica McKeller, Jim Morrison, Rob Reiner, Tim Robbins, George Takai, Gabrielle Union, Kareem Abdul-Jabaar, Troy Aikman, Arthur Ashe, Jimmy Connors, Florence Griffith-Joyner, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Reggie Miller, Freddie Mitchell, Jackie Robinson, Bill Walton, Johnnie Cochran, Robert Shapiro, Brooke Burke, Tom Anderson- Creator of MySpace

Head Coach: Ben Howland
Record (Conference Record): 27-6 (14-4)
Advanced by: Beat California to win Pac Ten Tournament
RPI: 13
SOS: 29
Best Performance: Beat Arizona 85-79 (Road)
Best Player: G Jordan Farmar
No. of Seniors: 4
NCAA Tournament Appearances (in four years): 39 (2)
Likely Seed: 3

These Bruins are an All-Name Team by themselves. My favorite is forward Luc Richard Mbah a Moute from Cameroon and nicknamed “The Prince”. I’ve seen about as much of UCLA as I have of Belmont but I know the Pac Ten was extremely down this year and UCLA hasn’t beaten a ranked team since January 5 and that was Arizona. They are susceptible to an upset, if not in the first round then definitely to a better tested No. 6 seed.