Mick Cronin clearly isn’t a fan of Allegiant Air.
The UCLA coach took aim at the airline after his team’s exit from March Madness 2025.
“It’s 12:40 a.m., and our season just ended,” Cronin said when asked about looking ahead to next year following the No. 7-seeded Bruins’ loss to No. 2 Tennessee in the second round. “That’s it. You want to ask me about next year? Right now, my biggest concern is how awful the seats are on @Allegiant flight, and that terrible plane we’ll be flying home on tomorrow.”
UCLA’s Mick Cronin, on when he’ll start worrying about next season.
“Right now guys, it’s 12:40 am and our season just ended. Right now my biggest concern is how bad the seats are on @Allegiant flight, on that terrible plane we’re gonna have to fly home tomorrow..”
I felt that pic.twitter.com/LQ9Zc57YKm
— Trey Wallace (@TreyWallace_) March 23, 2025
Cronin completed his sixth season in charge at UCLA, leading the Bruins to their fourth NCAA Tournament appearance.
He previously led them to a Final Four appearance in 2020-21.
The Bruins blew out No. 10 Utah State, 72-47, in the first round before Saturday’s loss.
Chaz Lanier led Tennessee with 20 points, while Zakai Zeigler added 15.
Skyy Clark scored 18 points for UCLA, though he struggled with foul trouble and barely played in the first half.
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“Skyy not being able to play really threw us off for a long time,” Cronin said. “It messed up the game. If that hadn’t happened, we might have had a lead at halftime.”
“We got off to a terrible start. I don’t have the first-half stats, but I think they had nine or ten offensive rebounds at halftime. Our defense couldn’t have been much better early on, but we didn’t do a good job on the glass in the first half. The second half was more even, but in the first half, it was 9-0 in second-chance points. I told our guys this game was going to be decided by the little things: who gets the ball off the rim, who’s strong with it. They screened better than we did.”
Cronin and his Bruins endured numerous long flights this season, their first in the Big Ten following the Pac-12’s dissolution.
