All Ball Sports: UCLA ballers aiming for the Big Easy, Jansen’s gone, but could be back
by Paul Teetor Two victories down and four to go. That’s the situation the fourth-seeded UCLA men’s basketball team finds itself in after a wild weekend. They trailed for the entire game against 13th seeded Akron before waking up and stealing a victory at the last second, and then dominated 5th seeded St. Mary’s to make it to the Sweet 16. As if that wasn’t sweet enough news for Bruins fans, there was even better news coming out of their East Regional: top-seeded and defending national champion Baylor, as well as second-seeded Kentucky were knocked out of the tournament in major upsets this weekend. In other words, the two biggest obstacles blocking the Bruins’ path to another final Four slot, the two teams that they would have had to beat in consecutive games next weekend if the seedings had held up, were eliminated in two of the biggest upsets in NCAA history. Indeed, when 15th seeded St. Peters, a New Jersey college of less than 2,000 students, knocked out mighty Kentucky in the first round, Kentucky Coach John Calipari apologized to Kentucky fans for allowing such a monumental upset on his watch. Meanwhile, UCLA fans immediately realized that this was great news. What not so…
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