{"id":609650,"date":"2026-02-18T12:05:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T12:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/609650\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T12:05:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T12:05:23","slug":"ucla-basketball-mick-cronin-ejected-steven-jamerson-in-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/609650\/","title":{"rendered":"UCLA basketball Mick Cronin ejected Steven Jamerson in loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UCLA men\u2019s basketball coach Mick Cronin is used to blowing up. <\/p>\n<p>Widely considered one of the most expressive and short-tempered coaches in the college game, Cronin had an all-time blowup Tuesday night in the Bruins <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/17\/sports\/ucla-gets-blown-out-by-michigan-state\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">82-59 loss<\/a> to No. 15 Michigan State.<\/p>\n<p>Trailing by 27 with less than five minutes to play, Bruins forward Steven Jamerson II was whistled for a technical foul after committing a hard foul on Michigan State\u2019s Carson Cooper. After committing the foul, Jamerson then came face-to-face with Cooper, resulting in the technical foul.<\/p>\n<p>He was immediately subbed out by Cronin, and then came the drama.<\/p>\n<p>Cronin was caught on cameras appearing to eject Jamerson from the game. While Jamerson attempted to plead his case, Cronin had no time for the 6-10 senior and ignored him. He then signaled to an assistant coach to take Jamerson back to the locker room.<\/p>\n<p>Jamerson finished with two points, two rebounds, two assists and five fouls in eight minutes of action.<\/p>\n<p>For Cronin and the Bruins, it\u2019s hard to imagine how much lower this team can get. <\/p>\n<p>After winning seven of their past nine games and climbing into the NCAA tournament picture, UCLA was blasted by Michigan and Michigan State by a combined 53 points over the past four days.<\/p>\n<p>And now comes the fallout from Cronin\u2019s viral moment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UCLA men\u2019s basketball coach Mick Cronin is used to blowing up. Widely considered one of the most expressive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7,160,66,5747,4262],"class_list":{"0":"post-609650","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-ucla","12":"tag-ucla-bruins"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116091547096914892","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}