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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
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Ben Bolch

Mick Cronin making sure UCLA gets its rest amid busy stretch

His team forced to play practically every other day, UCLA coach Mick Cronin wasn't going to take it sitting down.

He sat a player as a countermeasure.

Cody Riley was the first Bruin to get a new kind of DNP-CD — Did Not Play-Coach's Defiance. Cronin called it load management in a term familiar to NBA fans accustomed to seeing their favorite players shut down to manage their workload.

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