It is glamorously called, "The Road to the Final Four," but on the day UCLA received its coordinates, it was surely struck with a gritty realization.
They weren't exactly placed on a road. They were placed on a narrow, winding stretch of mud and rocks. They were placed on a potholed path seemingly headed directly into a ditch.
There's Boise State. There's Gonzaga. There's — gasp — Kansas.
