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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.