THE HERD - Hour 3 - UCLA HC Mick Cronin stops by The Herd, looking at the NBA playoff match ups
The Herd with Colin Cowherd
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🗓️ 3 April 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Colin talks to UCLA head coach Mick Cronin about the Final Four and what makes UConn such a tough team to beat.
Plus, he takes an early look at the NBA playoff match ups with Rachel Nichols and why Victor Wembanyama might lead the Spurs to the championship.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.1 | Thanks for listening to The Heard podcast. |
| 0:06.8 | Be sure to catch us live every weekday on Fox Sports Radio in noon to 3 Eastern, 9 a.m. to noon Pacific. |
| 0:13.6 | Find your local station for the herd at Fox Sports Radio.com or stream us live every day in the IHeartRadio app by searching Fox Sports Radio or FSR. |
| 0:24.2 | Now let's get this party started. |
| 0:26.2 | You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. |
| 0:28.8 | I've said this. |
| 0:30.0 | In last couple of years, you know, sports are cyclical outside of the NFL, which just keeps |
| 0:34.8 | getting more popular. |
| 0:35.8 | College football got very, very regional, |
| 0:43.3 | very Alabama, Georgia now. It's much broader. College basketball, I think, in the last three years, there's just so much talent of the size of college teams. Quickness is no longer the name of the |
| 0:52.6 | game. It's just get big. Be like Illinois and Michigan. Just get big. Mick Cronin, his Bruins, faced all four of these teams in the final four with different results. He's joining us now live. 22 years coaching in college basketball, 170 of his games. UCLA and everywhere. Okay, let's start with Illinois. |
| 1:11.2 | That was one of the wildest games of the year in the sport. |
| 1:13.7 | It was 95-94. |
| 1:15.9 | You beat them by a point. |
| 1:18.1 | Your guards, they're bigs. |
| 1:21.1 | You know, it was just a wildly entertaining game. |
| 1:24.4 | Is there a secret to beating Illinois, Mick? |
| 1:27.1 | Or do you just have to acknowledge |
| 1:28.9 | they're going to score on you? They're big. I mean, well, when you, when you beat them, did you go |
| 1:33.8 | into that game thinking, listen, this is going to be a high scoring game. It's just the way they play. |
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