TAKEAWAYS: UCLA 68 NU 63

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WildcatReport - March Madness Takeaways: UCLA 68, Northwestern 63

Northwestern's upset bid against UCLA comes up short to bring one of the best seasons in program history to a close.

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"I just think the way our guys approached this year and with the mindset we have, I think we've created an identity," Collins said. "I think for a lot of years, maybe that was my mistake, you kind of come into every year and you're trying to figure out this is our group, how do we figure out how to win?

"I never felt like we had an identity of our program. I think what these guys have done is they've set an identity to our program, identity of work, identity of toughness, identity of defense, that I think will carry over."

That's a big big comment from CCC. That's been something that a lot of us have noticed and criticized externally and has been a problem from year to year and within games. For CCC to sort of acknowledge this and say he thinks this team had a big impact in changing that is big.