UCLA Basketball: Second-Worst Bruins Loss In History Leaves Club Scrambling

The "Huntsman Humiliation" has a catchy ring to it.

Your UCLA Bruins are reeling.

The club has fallen to 6-10, in the midst of its second four-game losing streak of the 2023-24 season, and it just suffered its second-worst defeat in its history last night, a 90-44 stinker to the 12-4 Utah Utes. Swingman Lazar Stefanovic, a transfer from Utah, may be regretting his decision to switch sides.

Per Ben Bolch of The Los Angeles Times, head coach Mick Cronin couldn't paint a particularly sunny picture of the loss.

“We got our ass kicked every way we could — coaching, playing, hustle, everything,” Cronin said. “I’ve got no positives for you as far as one guy.”

Bolch notes that this only UCLA's 109-61 loss against the Stanford Cardinal almost exactly 26 years ago (nicknamed the “Maples Massacre”), on January 9th, 1997, was worse.

Stefanovic, too, was reeling after losing to his former program, per UCLA Communications.

“We couldn’t get a rebound," Stefanovic bemoaned. "They were shooting until they were making it and they start making it right away and we just couldn’t get a stop.”