Following the coaching search debacle that brought Steve Alford to Westwood as Ben Howland's replacement, Chancellor Gene Block announced this morning that Dan Guerrero would not be retained as UCLA's athletic director.

Disturbing reports from Steve Alford's time at University of Iowa leads to questions whether UCLA's incompetent athletic director conducted basic background checks on Steve Alford..

The Bruins have hired a guy with a less-than-stellar NCAA tournament record, meanwhile it looks like it could turn into a Final Four with three coaching candidates that UCLA never made a serious run at, in another Chianti Dan coaching hire blunder.

Current players are winners, UCLA AD is a loser.

UCLA’s incompetent athletic director’s ridiculous spin during the introductory presser for Steve Alford fails basic smell test.

Inane attempts by CBS analysts Greg Anthony, Kenny Smith and Charles Barkley to further the media narrative of unreasonable Bruin basketball fans

See how the Twittersphere exploded when Aflord was announced.

With the news that UCLA has hired New Mexico's Steve Alford as the new head coach in Westwood still fresh, we turn our attention back to the NCAA tournament, with the first pair of Elite Eight games underway today.