12/30: UCLA lost to Liberty. Bruins are now 7-6. Is Steve Alford going to get fired before the season ends?
Eye On College Basketball
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🗓️ 31 December 2018
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
UCLA fell 73-58 (!) at home (!!) to Liberty (!!!!) on Saturday. Bruins coach Steve Alford does not seem long for that job now. Parrish and Norlander open on that and go back in time to the reactions from multiple media members in 2013, when Alford was hired by UCLA. Then they get into who could replace Alford in 2019 (20:10) before moving on to the dumpster fire that is the Pac-12 (35:05), which looks to be a two-bid league ... if that. Elsewhere, Kentucky rounded closer to its best form by beating Louisville (44:15) and St. John's (51:30) got jobbed in a loss against Seton Hall.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's scary Paris and Sunday, December 30, 2018. |
| 0:10.3 | Welcome back to the Ion Comics Festival podcast. |
| 0:12.9 | Matt Norlander is here with me. |
| 0:14.4 | Hope everybody had a good weekend or at least a weekend. |
| 0:17.4 | Better than the Pac-12 weekend because the nightmare of a season for the Pac-12 somehow |
| 0:21.5 | got even worse this weekend. |
| 0:23.0 | Utah got smoked at home by Nevada. |
| 0:25.7 | So Nevada, of course, stays undefeated. |
| 0:27.7 | Winston, which entered the weekend, ranked 197 at Kenpon, goes to Arizona State, beats |
| 0:32.8 | Arizona State. |
| 0:33.8 | This happens just a week after Arizona State knocked off Kansas. |
| 0:37.3 | So now the sun devils are out of the top 25 and 1, which means no Pac-12 schools are in |
| 0:41.6 | the top 25 and 1. |
| 0:43.0 | Santa Clara beat Washington State into state of Washington, Seattle, 1 at California. |
| 0:47.4 | And UCLA dropped to 7 and 6 on the season thanks to a 73-58. |
| 0:54.3 | And 73-58 lost at Polly Pavilion to Liberty. |
| 0:59.4 | Now Liberty isn't terrible, long as we're being fair, but Richie McCase flames were coming |
| 1:04.2 | off a loss to Austin P and they spent Saturday beating the Bruins in Westwood by 15 points. |
| 1:10.9 | As you probably know, that's now four straight losses for UCLA and two of the losses are home |
| 1:15.0 | losses to Belmonton Liberty. |
| 1:16.5 | And when you consider, this is the same school that fired Ben Hall and after he literally |
| 1:20.6 | won an outright Pac-12 title. |
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