Sports: UCLA basketball is on the air

Expectations continue to be high at UCLA. After 3 Final Fours, the fans are getting spoiled!

Today, my Sport's Illustrated came in and they put UCLA as #3 behind UNC and UConn.

UCLA is playing their 2nd game of the season and have a mere 2 point lead at the half.

The first half was unimpressive. The team lost some key players from last year's team and they seemed sluggish against a serious mid-major in the Miami of Ohio Red Hawks. The expectation is that the freshmen will be impact players. But I am generally skeptical about freshman press clippings.

Hopefully, they will get their defensive intensity in the 2nd half.

But so far, they don't look like a #3 level team.

UPDATE: UCLA barely won the game. Seniors Collison and Shipp came up big late in the game to save the Bruin's bacon. Hopefully, the freshman will continue to grow and realize they are now no longer big fish in a small pond of high school ball but small fish in the big lake of college ball. Also, the front line play of UCLA must improve or they will come nowhere near the lofty final fours of the last few years. GO BRUINS!