Mick Cronin

Biography

(PDF) Mick Cronin enters his eighth season as UCLA’s head coach in 2026-27. Through 23 seasons as a collegiate head coach, he has led his teams to an overall record of 527-247 (.681 percentage). Cronin was named The Michael Price Family UCLA Men’s Head Basketball Coach on April 9, 2019. Through the past seven seasons at UCLA, Cronin has guided the Bruins to a record of 162-76 and an 94-43 mark in conference play – five years in the Pac-12 and two seasons in the Big Ten. UCLA was one of four programs, along with Arkansas, Gonzaga and Houston, to advance to the Sweet 16 or farther in 2021, 2022 and 2023. The Bruins advanced to the NCAA Tournament’s Sweet 16 in 2022 and 2023 after reaching the Final Four in 2021. That marked UCLA’s first Final Four appearance since 2008. In addition, the Bruins secured three consecutive Sweet 16 appearances (2021-23) for the first time since 2006-08. Cronin has led the Bruins to a 44-26 record in contests decided by five points or fewer, including all games that advanced to overtime. In addition, the Bruins have gone 120-9 over the past seven seasons when limiting the opposition to 65 points or fewer. Cronin has guided his teams to 16 NCAA Tournament berths in 23 seasons as a college head coach. He steered UCLA’s program to the NCAA Tournament in 2021 (Final Four), 2022 (Sweet 16), 2023 (Sweet 16), 2025 (Round of 32) and 2026 (Round of 32). The 2020 NCAA Tournament was abruptly canceled during the week of conference tournaments, due to the outbr

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