Author Archives: Nik Lampros

It wouldn’t be fair to say that Luc Richard Mbah a Moute had been in a slump.

One of the two freshmen on the No. 5 UCLA men’s basketball team spent this past weekend outplaying four of the conference’s top big men and staking an early claim to Pac-10 freshman-of-the-year honors.

BERKELEY “”mdash; It’s a new year, a new quarter, and a new Pac-10 season.

It would be understandable if some Bruin fans were surprised when they saw the lineup that coach Ben Howland sent out to take the opening tip-off against No. 24 Stanford. Gone was sophomore guard Russell Westbrook, who had started every other game this season for the Bruins, while averaging 11.5 points and 5.7 assists in […]

It turns out that the Las Vegas Bowl is an exciting little bundle of contradictions. I thought I’d offer a short glossary of all the things I learned about during, and also before and after, the Bruins’ 17-16 loss to the BYU Cougars.

ANAHEIM “”mdash; When the Bruins took the court in the Honda Center on Saturday, they found themselves in a situation they very well could see again in March.

This time, the UCLA men’s basketball team started its comeback a little earlier. After spotting Texas a first-half lead that ballooned to as many as 16 points, the Bruins came out strong to start the second half, and reclaimed the lead on a Josh Shipp 3-pointer with 12:53 to play.