After beating Cal State Northridge 83-50, men’s basketball team is ready to begin NIT Season Tip-Off

You couldn’t draw up two more different beginnings to a basketball season, not even if you were Pablo Picasso or Vincent van Gogh.

A year after being stunned in double overtime by Cal State Fullerton to open the 2009-2010 season, the UCLA men’s basketball team hosted Cal State Northridge Friday in the inaugural contest of the 2010-2011 campaign.

It was quickly apparent that this was a different Bruin team.