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Howland Meets With Guerrero

By Steve Henson
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Pittsburgh basketball Coach Ben Howland met with UCLA Athletic Director Dan Guerrero on Sunday in Santa Barbara, according to a source close to Pittsburgh.

Howland is a top candidate to replace Steve Lavin, who was fired two weeks ago as Bruin coach. Pittsburgh went 28-5 this season, losing to Marquette in the Midwest Regional semifinals on Thursday.

Howland, whose parents live in Santa Barbara, is expected to meet with Pittsburgh officials again before finalizing anything with UCLA. He is the first candidate to meet with Guerrero.

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Panther officials said they plan to offer Howland a raise from the approximately $800,000 a year he currently earns in an effort to keep him.

Lavin was fired after UCLA had its first losing season (10-19) since 1947-48.

-- Steve Henson

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Steve Henson

Steve Henson is a breaking news and enterprise reporter at the Los Angeles Times. He previously served as an editor and reporter in the Sports department. Henson was a leader in digital-only newsrooms from 2007-19 as a senior editor and columnist at Yahoo Sports and as senior editor at the USA Today Sports Media Group. This is his second stint at The Times, having covered the Dodgers and UCLA as well as doing enterprise, investigative and features writing from 1985-2007. Henson was awarded first place in sports features in 2023 and in 2021 by the L.A. Press Club. He has been honored several times by APSE — most recently in 2023 and 2021 — and also by the California News Publishers Assn., the Football Writers Assn. of America and U.S. Basketball Writers Assn.

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