Author Archives: Colin Yuhl

The stage was set for drama, and the youngest player on the floor knew exactly what do. UCLA’s Jordan Farmar, barely 18 years old, didn’t hesitate once with the game on the line and the ball in his hands. With a spinning five-foot bank shot and 4.7 seconds remaining, the freshman point guard punctuated the […]

At last, UCLA finally gets to learn a little bit about itself. Sunday’s game against Boston College in the John Wooden Classic will be the first real test for the Bruins, who are 4-0 for the first time in nearly a decade. After beating up on mediocre teams, UCLA did what it needed to do: […]

Starting two true freshmen in the backcourt, UCLA has been playing with fire, so it’s no surprise that it has been singed a bit in the first two games of the season. Though they have won the first two games of the season, the Bruins have turned the ball over with alarming frequency, committing 18 […]

In his first two exhibition games, junior Ryan Hollins seemed to be drifting. He attempted only one field goal and scored a total of four points in those games, and coach Ben Howland admitted that Hollins was still adjusting to basketball after missing nearly the entire offseason while recovering from knee surgery. But in the […]

They say the third time’s the charm for everything, and basketball is no exception. Ben Howland’s reputation as a coach who can rebuild a program helped him attain his current position at UCLA, and his history shows that the third year is when Howland turns things around. But after 36 losses over the past two […]

So this is the team the Bruins were meant to be. In the most exciting and closely contested match of the season, UCLA fell just short of upsetting two-time defending national champion USC 31-29, 30-28, 23-30, 21-30, 18-16. Now, unless the two teams meet in the NCAA Tournament, four Bruin seniors will end their careers […]

There is only one current member of the UCLA women’s volleyball team that has ever contributed to a victory over USC. As a freshman, setter Krystal McFarland saw her Bruins defeat the Trojans in 2000. Now, as a redshirt senior, McFarland has one last chance to help lead the team to a victory over its […]