How Cincinnati high school hoops started the coaching journey for UCLA s Mick Cronin
Pat Goedde/La Salle High School
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.
Window of opportunity: La Salle senior scores first basket on senior night
Window of Opportunity By Joe Danneman | February 17, 2021 at 11:52 AM EST - Updated February 17 at 11:52 AM
CINCINNATI (FOX19) - It’s a big week for the high school basketball teams in Ohio as tournament play begins, but it’s the way a local senior night began - that made for something bigger.
“This is just the greatest moment that he could have right now,” La Salle head basketball coach Pat Goedde said.
A senior at La Salle High School, Gavin Reupert is the picture of involvement.
“He’s always had a love for sports. Even though he doesn’t necessarily play football, basketball, baseball - he just always had a love for sports,” his dad Joe said.