With Yaxel Lendeborg having spurned the NBA to spend the next year with Michigan Wolverines, Dusty May's Year 2 roster now looks almost entirely set.

Before the focus fully shifts to the 2025-26 men's college basketball season, we're evaluating how this past season went.

Mick Cronin hasn’t been much of a fan of traveling this season ... “I said it — I did the pregame show with your guys here for Duke–Illinois, and I said I thought Florida was the best team back then.

UCLA head coach Mick Cronin fired back at a reporter who asked ... Meanwhile, Tennessee will advance to play the winner of Illinois and Kentucky, who play on Sunday. Ben Strauss is an associate ...

They had more offense than coach Mick Cronin’s Bruins could handle ... No 3 Kentucky can make it four-for-four by turning back No. 6 Illinois on Sunday. The Vols are assured of a familiar ...

Illinois, the No. 18 offensive rebounding ... The UCLA Bruins did the same in 2021 under former UC coach Mick Cronin. La Salle (2013), Tennessee (2014) and Syracuse (2018) started in Dayton ...

Purdue coach Matt Painter, UCLA counterpart Mick Cronin and Tennessee’s Rick Barnes ... the Sun Belt champs — while sixth-seeded Illinois faces the Texas-Xavier winner. Those games are in ...

UCLA coach Mick Cronin had a near meltdown Friday afternoon ... He is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism.

Illinois coach Brad Underwood is the 14th ... Underwood is behind Tom Izzo of Michigan State, UCLA's Mick Cronin and Purdue's Matt Painter. The Southeastern Conference has six of the top 12 ...

Mick Cronin would seem to have his pick of quality ... Junior guard Skyy Clark, who spent his freshman season at Illinois and his sophomore season at Louisville, told The Times that he intended ...

UCLA head coach Mick Cronin has high expectations for Duke ... for a rare late-season non-conference matchup with a very good Illinois squad as considerable favorites, but even the most optimistic ...

LOS ANGELES — Mick Cronin will earn his 500th career win ... For example, he felt UCLA’s 83-78 loss to Illinois on Tuesday was a chance for his players to learn that it takes precise and ...