SAN ANTONIO — UCLA wasted little time in answering whether it would show up for Friday’s Valero Alamo Bowl. After a demoralizing loss to Stanford to end their regular season, the Bruins had some reason to lack motivation for their bowl game. But UCLA came out with perhaps its quickest start of the season and […]
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UCLA men’s basketball loses to Alabama 56-50
A week ago against Kentucky, it took 18 shots and nearly eight minutes for UCLA men’s basketball to score its first basket. Playing at Alabama Sunday, UCLA needed just 10 seconds to get on the board. Getting its next basket was more of a challenge. The Bruins’ next field goal didn’t come for another seven and […]
UCLA men’s basketball loses to No. 1 Kentucky 83-44
This post was updated on Dec. 20 at 9:30 p.m. CHICAGO — By the time UCLA scored its first points, the game was already out of reach. Facing No. 1 Kentucky (12-0) in the CBS Sports Classic in Chicago on Saturday, UCLA fell behind 24-0 through the first seven-and-a-half minutes before scoring its first basket. The […]
UCLA men’s basketball trails Kentucky 41-7 at halftime
CHICAGO — It didn’t take long for No. 1 Kentucky to take control of the game. Ninety-five seconds into game two of Saturday’s CBS Sports Classic in Chicago, UCLA found itself down 7-0, forcing coach Steve Alford to take a timeout. The pep talk didn’t fix much, as the Bruins headed into halftime trailing the […]
Highlights from QB Brett Hundley’s UCLA career
Brett Hundley has become one of UCLA’s best quarterbacks of all time over the past three years, as he has led the Bruins to three straight seasons of nine wins or more after the program only had one such season in the 10-year span prior to Hundley’s playing career. Daily Bruin Sports takes a look […]
UCLA men’s soccer loses national title game on penalty kicks
From the start of the NCAA College Cup final on Sunday in Cary, N.C., the strategy of the lower-ranked and injury-riddled Virginia Cavaliers was clear: Do whatever’s possible to take the game to the precarious penalty kick stage. Virginia sat back deep in its own final third for the entire game, conceding nearly all the […]
UCLA men’s basketball trails No. 9 Gonzaga 38-27 at halftime
In UCLA’s first real test at home this season, the Bruins are getting more than they can handle after a turnover-plagued first half of play. UCLA put together one of its sloppiest halves of the season, turning the ball over nine times, and finds itself trailing No. 9 Gonzaga 38-27 at the break. Forward Kyle […]