Indiana's head coaching position will be open at the end of the season, UCLA's Mike Cronin has been rumored as a potential candidate. Cronin has essentially shut down rumors of him giving the vacancy any thought.

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.

UCLA knocked off Indiana in Bloomington. The game came on the backdrop of the Hoosiers’ coaching search, and Mick Cronin’s name has come up on some Hot Boards as a potential replacement for Mike Woodson.