UCLA earned the right to joke around a little bit this Selection Sunday without any nervous laughter.
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UCLA’s second-place finish in the Pac-10 a testament to team’s resilience after a slow start to the season
Ben Howland made a deal with a reporter 12 games into the UCLA men’s basketball team’s season.
UCLA men’s basketball will face Oregon today in the Pac-10 Tournament quarterfinals
Now it’s win or go home.
Sort of.
Men’s basketball hopes for another double win to avenge Washington losses
Around this time of the year, the Bruins are seeing double.
Arizona State eclipsed at Pauley Pavilion as the UCLA men's basketball team shakes off another lethargic start to win 71-53
The Bruins did their best to emulate the slow start that plagued them in Berkeley last weekend. But against Arizona State Thursday, the UCLA men’s basketball team stormed back and left no question about the outcome.
The Bruin road show
It doesn’t have three rings, or lions or tigers.
No Barnum, no Bailey, no unicycle riders.
No acrobats, no trapeze acts, nothing on fire.
But it’s hitting the road in 2012 and the situation looks dire.
Zone defense dooms men’s basketball in loss to Cal
The zone killed UCLA after all.
Coach Ben Howland used it, but he hates it.
His players didn’t quite know how to play it and on the other end, the Bruins were prepared to face a zone defense ““ but Cal played man-to-man defense to open the game.