When we bring people on visits, they say, ‘Why do you have John Wooden right there?’ Well, he played here.” Painter was too young to remember that last game; his first real memory of the ...

UCLA coach Cori Close wasn’t sure what she was expecting when she was invited to meet John ... practices and told her that he had informed Wooden that she’d be tagging along that night. At ...

"There is this perception of John ... his first season. The next year, the Bruins were 24-7, and Wooden was in his first NCAA Tournament. No detail was too small for Wooden. One of the first ...