PULLMAN, Wash. — Someone forgot to tell the UCLA men’s basketball team that, unlike baseball, the game isn’t over after nine.
In the opening moments of the Bruins’ final regular season game Saturday, a meeting with the Washington State Cougars to close out the regular season, sophomore guard/forward Kyle Anderson hit a jumper, followed by a crisp jump shot from redshirt senior forward David Wear and a fortunate three-pointer from junior guard Norman Powell.
Sophomore guard Jordan Adams swooped in for an easy layup less than 20 seconds later, and just like that, it was a 9-0, three-possession game with just over three minutes gone.
And that, in what surprisingly crumbled to a 73-55 loss, is where UCLA began to coast.
Story by: Andrew Erickson