UCLA basketball coach Mick Cronin has been on one lately. First, he ripped his own players in a postgame rant after a loss to Michigan on Jan. 8. Just a few days later, he got ejected on purpose late in the game during an eventual loss to Maryland.

Amid a four-game losing streak, Mick Cronin acknowledges that the Bruins haven't adjusted well to Big Ten play. Cronin wants to see more fight from his players.

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UCLA basketball head coach Mick Cronin explained why his team is having difficulty in the new Big 10 conference.

Cronin has been a solid coach for UCLA since coming over from Cincinnati in 2019. He led UCLA to the Final Four in 2021 and back-to-back Sweet Sixteen berths in 2022 and ’23, although UCLA missed the tournament last year.

That’s no longer the case. They’ve lost multiple games, and to add insult to injury, head coach Mick Cronin has made the rounds for all the wrong reasons, calling out his players and throwing them under the bus after every loss.

If you're going to ask UCLA basketball coach Mick Cronin a question, just make sure it's not about the program's Big Ten schedule. When it was announced that UCLA and USC were joining the Big Ten, many fans questioned how it'd be fair for those two teams to constantly travel to places like