Yes they did ...
https://www.cbssports.com/college-b...tears-after-ucla-learns-of-adams-broken-foot/
"UCLA was playing its best basketball of the season, winning nine of its last 11 games -- and Adams was a major reason for the team's success. One of UCLA's assistant coaches had told me less than 24 hours earlier that Adams was the team's toughest player. He is also the Bruins' most effective and versatile overall scorer and proved that down the stretch against Arizona, at one point scoring 11 straight points for Howland's club."
"It's difficult to fathom, though, this UCLA team making a run without Adams. Muhammad is the team's leading scorer, but he can't manufacture a bucket with ease in the same manner as Adams. This team, which has virtually no depth, needed all of its pieces to make a legitimate run in the
NCAA tournament. Now the Bruins don't even have a backup guard behind Drew and
Norman Powell, who will almost certainly be thrust into the starting lineup."
So, does it bother you that Pitino has the same number of tournament wins as your hero? Or how about the fact that only one of those coaches went against a team that just lost its best player? If you want to argue that Shabazz and his empty stats, terrible defense, and incredibly selfish play made him the best player, fine, but Adams was easily the most important player to that team. Please explain the lie.
You've clearly lost both arguments, so I expect that you won't respond. I'll take your silence as admission of defeat