How Cincinnati high school hoops started the coaching journey for UCLA's Mick Cronin
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UCLA men's basketball coach Mick Cronin was a standout point guard at La Salle in the late 1980s for the Lancers.
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CINCINNATI â Lakota West boys basketball coach Jim Leon can't wait to arrive in Indianapolis for the NCAA men's basketball Final Four Saturday.
Leon is enjoying every minute that UCLA head coach Mick Cronin - his former Woodward assistant coach - and the Bruins are in the tournament.
"He's like a professor," said Leon, who has coached high school basketball since the early 1980s. "He understands the game better than anybody I've ever been around."