March Madness Betting: Kevin Love and the UCLA Bruins

Underdogs in the 2008 NCAA tournament for the first time, the Bruins will need more than a dominant outing from Kevin Love to prove oddsmakers wrong.

Love Is Not Enough
April 2, 2008
By Carlisle Richards
Bodog Nation Contributing Writer

You expected the UCLA Bruins to reach the Final Four. The Bruins expected the Bruins to reach the Final Four.

But as losers in the semifinals the last two years, what they do from here is anyone’s guess.

Maybe that's why oddsmakers opened them as two-point underdogs against Memphis and as 63/20 dogs to win the national championship.

"We're definitely not satisfied with going to the Final Four," Bruins forward Luc Richard Mbah a Moute told the Associated Press. "We want to have a better outcome than we had the last two years. UCLA is about hanging national championship banners. Going to the Final Four is not going to cut it."

This is the third year in a row that the Bruins made it this far, but this is undoubtedly the best team overall. The Bruins were missing an inside presence to tussle with Florida last year and the year before, and they've definitely fixed that problem with freshman Kevin Love.

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