Dec. 17, 2008

Article printed in LA Times
Dec. 17, 2008
by David Wharton

There's no use pretending that the Loyola Marymount basketball team, winless this season, has much of a chance against UCLA tonight. Even the Lions' acting coach, the ironically named Max Good, acknowledges: "On paper, it's certainly a mismatch."

But nothing the 14th-ranked Bruins might do to his players, no lopsided score, could compare to what they have already endured.

They have lost 10 games in a row. So many of them have fallen to injury that, at a recent game, the athletic director swore he counted more players in street clothes than in uniform.

Most difficult, the Lions have lost the charismatic and well-known coach hired only months ago to lead them to brighter days.

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