Mick Cronin and the UCLA Bruins try to play a basketball season, however they have a lot extra on their thoughts as the world round their college has been affected by wildfires.
The primary began on Jan. 7 within the Pacific Palisades and has been ongoing.
UCLA has performed two away video games because the fires began, and its subsequent residence sport is scheduled to be on Friday in opposition to the Iowa Hawkeyes again at Pauley Pavilion.
Whether or not or not that sport could be performed as scheduled remains to be an open query, however after UCLA’s final sport, a loss to Rutgers, Cronin revealed that he and the staff are having a tough time specializing in basketball with how issues are wanting again West.
“No phrases. I simply wish to get residence. I wish to get residence to my household, be sure that — it’s robust when that is all occurring and also you’re not round your loved ones. Ensuring individuals are secure in occasions like this. So, it’s actually, actually arduous,” Cronin said within the postgame information convention (h/t On3).
Being on the highway has been robust for Cronin and his UCLA staff as a result of they have a lot to fret about again residence. Cronin‘s household needed to evacuate for a while, in response to On3.
“They did, however they’re again for now. We’re on the sting in Encino,” Cronin stated. “Look, there’s lots of people who’ve misplaced every part. It’s horrible. I used to be telling [Rutgers head] Coach [Steve] Pikiell, he was asking, it’s like one thing from a film. It’s arduous to even describe. It’s arduous for you and I as a result of we’re not there. It’s arduous to course of.”
The Bruins are 11-6, however they’re presently using a four-game shedding streak.
