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State of the program: UCLA

After a disastrous 18-loss season, the three straight Final Fours seem like a lifetime ago

Originally Published: November 1, 2010
By Diamond Leung | ESPN.com

LOS ANGELES -- Ben Howland has long referred to himself as merely the caretaker of a UCLA program that belonged to the man who spent his retirement years sitting quietly behind the Bruins bench.

Indeed, when John Wooden passed away in June, the school honored his memory by announcing that no one would ever again occupy Section 103B, Row 2, Seat 1 at Pauley Pavilion. For UCLA coaches on the bench in the post-Wooden era, they were left with the responsibility of upholding the Wizard of Westwood's ...

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