Author Archives: Ajaybir Behniwal

Ben Howland had warned his team of what was to come on Sunday against UC Riverside. And it seemed as though the No. 1 Bruins (6-0) took the warning to heart and were prepared to endure the slow pace of the Highlanders from the start of the first half up until the sound of the […]

After watching both preseason games of this season from the bench, Lorenzo Mata knew that the Bruins would need him to provide a spark when he returned. So when he found out he would be starting on Wednesday night in the regular-season home opener against Brigham Young, he didn’t lose his cool. It came as […]

Living up to the pressure would be a complete understatement of what Darren Collison did on Wednesday night. Actually, no single statement can quite describe what he did in the Bruins’ win over BYU. But the numbers he was able to put on the board begin to paint a picture of what took place in […]

The decision was truly simple in his mind. Mustafa Abdul-Hamid had two options coming out of high school. He could have gone to an Ivy League school to be the star of the basketball team. Or he could have attended a university boasting an athletic program that tops all others and perhaps remain in the […]

What everyone has known for awhile has just become official. One of the nation’s top ““ if not the top ““ recruits, Kevin Love, signed a National Letter of Intent to attend UCLA next year. Joining the standout center is Chace Stanback, a 6-foot-7, 210-pound guard/forward from Fairfax High School. Love is considered to be […]

On Tuesday, it was announced that UCLA’s Nikola Dragovic has been ruled ineligible for the Bruins’ first 10 games of the regular season, due to a violation of an NCAA policy. The freshman forward from Belgrade, Serbia competed for a team defined by a recent NCAA regulation as professional, due to the fact that one […]

Win No. 100 couldn’t have come at a more opportune moment for Benjamin Kohlloeffel. Looking to capture his second consecutive ITA National Indoors title ““ only the third player to do so, and the first in over a decade ““ Kohlloeffel executed and did everything necessary to topple hometown favorite Steve Moneke of Ohio State […]