Steve Alford: 'I'm very happy' at UCLA

Steve Alford's name has continued to be mentioned in connection with the head coaching opening at Indiana since Tom Crean was fired March 16.

And Friday, after UCLA was knocked out of the NCAA tournament's Sweet 16 by Kentucky, the questions came again for the former Indiana star who won a national championship with the Hoosiers in 1987.

Alford reiterated that he is happy where he is.

"I talked about that last week," he said. "I said it last week, and I'll reiterate it again even more so, I guess, that I love Los Angeles. To begin with, it's a beautiful place, and our family has fallen in love with it. I've got two sons now, Kory first and now Bryce, that have graduated. Bryce is done, so he's graduating from UCLA, so I've got two sons that are graduates from there, a daughter that loves the school she's going to in Thousand Oaks.

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"I'm very happy. I'm at UCLA. I don't know of a lot of people that are out there wanting to leave UCLA.

"This is a pretty special place. We've worked awfully hard. Our staff has worked hard. We've got the No. 2 recruiting class coming in next year. We're opening a brand-new, state-of-the-art, 60-plus million practice facility, Mo Ostin Center, that is going to be spectacular that we've worked awfully hard to be a part of that, and I want to see that through, and we've got some special kids that are coming to join us.

"I'm very, very happy where I'm at, and hopefully that'll continue."

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