College Hops Rob Dauster Tips Analyst at Mick Cronin's UCLA as Big Ten's Dark Horse for a Final Four Run

University basketball analyst Rob Dauster was optimistic about the possibilities of Mick Cronin and the UCLA to make a deep career in the 2025-26 season. In an X Clip published on Saturday, Dauster tilted the Bruins as a dark horses contestant for the final of the Final Four in the Big Ten.

Dauster pointed to the balance of ChronicThe list of “The Field of 68” podcast and emphasized the arrival of the prominent guardian Donovan Dent as the main reasons for optimism.

“You have an elite point,” Dauster said on August 22.

“A large part of this is that I have very high expectations about how good donovan dent will return home.

Tooth, which moved from New MexicoAn impressive season comes where he promised 20.4 points, 2.3 rebounds and 6.4 assists per game in 49% shot.

Cronin enters its sixth season with UCLA. He was hired in 2019 as the 14th UCLA coach. At the time of his recruitment, Cronin had 365 career wins and ranked a select group who had reached nine tournaments followed by the NCAA. Cronin also guided UCLA in an appearance of the Final Four in 2021.

Mick Cronin seeks to fill the gaps last season with the line

Ucla bruins Coach Mick Cronin reflected on the departure of the NCAA tournament from the second round of last year and how it would approach next season. The Bruins lost to Tennessee 67-58 on March 23.

“I told our guys that this game would be won for other things,” Cronin said by Connor Dullinger from Daily Bruin on Wednesday. “Whoever gets a ball when it comes out of the edge, which is strong with the ball, are better than the screen.”

According to Cronin, the Bruins had no size, strength and score consistent to combine the most important teams in the country:

“At the end of last year's day, we weren't old enough. Against Michigan, against Tennessee, they were too big and strong for us.”

Cronin went to the transfer portal this season to address the weaknesses. His greatest movement was Landing Donovan Dent, the player of the year 2024-25 of the New Mexico year. Dent had been working on volume filming after Croniculus challenged him to make more confident traits.

Next to Dent, Cronin added to Missouri-Kansas City Transfer Jamar Brown, a fifth-year guard who promised 17 ppg and fired 40% of the 3-point range last season.

UCLA also added 6 feet-11 Xavier Booker From Michigan State and 6 feet-10 Steven Jamerson II of San Diego. In addition, the redshirts and Eric Freny redshirts are expected to provide depth and continuity of the UCLA.