UCLA coach Mick Cronin is a popular name in the conversation about Indiana basketball's next head coach. Here's what he said about that after defeating the Hoosiers 72-68 Friday at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall. BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – UCLA escaped Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall with a 72-68 win over Indiana Saturday night.

Many fans have decided their order of potential candidates, but when the rubber meets the road, some will not truly consider taking the Indiana job. Early in the process, here is background on why and why not certain candidates would fit at Indiana as the next men's basketball coach.

BLOOMINGTON — Indiana basketball made UCLA earn it. The Hoosiers fought back from a 10-point deficit in the final minutes of Friday's game against the Bruins at Assembly Hall, but couldn't come up with a clutch basket in the final seconds of a 72-68 loss.

Dylan Andrews sank two clutch free throws with four seconds remaining to help UCLA avoid a late-game collapse in a 72-68 win over Indiana on Friday in Bloomington, Ind.