Mick Cronin rips terrible airline flying UCLA home after March Madness ouster

Mick Cronin clearly isn’t a fan of Allegiant Air.The UCLA coach ripped the airline after his team was eliminated from March Madness 2025.“Right now guys, it’s 12:40 am and our season just ended,” Cronin said when asked about looking toward next year after the No.

7-seeded Bruins’ loss to No.2 Tennessee in the second round.

“That’s it.You’re gonna ask me about next year? Right now my biggest concern is how bad the seats are on @Allegiant flight, on that terrible plane we’re gonna have to fly home tomorrow.”Cronin completed his sixth season in charge at UCLA, leading the Bruins to their fourth NCAA Tournament appearance.

He previously led them to a Final Four appearance in 2020-21.The Bruins blew out No.

10 Utah State, 72-47, in the first round before Saturday’s loss.Chaz Lanier powered Tennessee with 20 points, while Zakai Zeigler chipped in 15.

Skyy Clark finished with 18 points for UCLA, but barely played in the first half due to foul trouble.Want to tune into as much March Madness as you can? DIRECTV Stream and Hulu + Live TV both have you covered with every channel you’ll need, plus free trials.“Skyy not being able to play really threw us off for a long time,” Cronin said.

“It messed the game up.We had a chance if that wouldn’t have happened, we might’ve had a lead at half.“We got off to a terrible start.

We were stopping them and I don’t have the first half stats but I think they had nine or ten offensive rebound at halftime.Our defense couldn’t have been much better early, but we didn’t do a good job on the glass in the first half for sure.

Second half was even but the first half — we also — it was 9-0 second-chance points at halftime.I told our guys this game was going to be won by other things: Who gets the ball when it comes off the rim, who is strong with the ball.

They screened better than we screened.”Cronin and his Bruins team had plenty of long flights this season, their first in the Big Ten afte...