Whole lotta Love gets UCLA to Final Four (AP)

 
A whole lotta Love has taken UCLA a long way this season. Expectations were already outsized when Kevin Love walked onto the Westwood campus as the greatest high school player in Oregon history. The 6-foot-10 freshman was the coveted big man the Bruins had been lacking since Bill Walton and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar starred on John Wooden's teams in the early '70s. [link]

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