Author Archives: Sagar Parikh

SACRAMENTO “”mdash; On Friday afternoon, Indiana forward D.J. White proclaimed that every double team he had faced this season was the same. Only 30 minutes later, Lorenzo Mata and Alfred Aboya promised the media that White was going to see a double team like he had never faced before on Saturday. It turned out that […]

SACRAMENTO “”mdash; With a minute and 45 seconds left and the Bruins’ lead down to two, junior Arron Afflalo was 2-for-11 from the field with six points. Yet, with the Bruins’ season on the line, there was no one who wanted the ball more. Over the final two minutes, Afflalo took the game on his […]

SACRAMENTO ““ Watching the tape of Indiana today, there was one player from the Hoosiers who stood out in the Bruins’ minds. D.J. White. The 6-foot-9, 240-pound junior forward with a 7-foot-3-inch wingspan was nothing like the Bruins had ever seen before. All you had to do was ask the player who is expected to […]

SACRAMENTO “”mdash; When things go wrong, play to your strengths. That was UCLA’s motto on Thursday. In a game where the Bruins resembled the Final Four team of last season and even the team from earlier this season, No. 2-seeded UCLA played inspiring defense and created multiple Weber State turnovers to turn Thursday’s NCAA Tournament […]

It was Jan. 13, 2007. Forward Josh Shipp, out with an injured right hamstring, stood by himself outside the USC locker room. The rest of his Bruin teammates were being hounded by reporters and were celebrating their greatest victory of the season. Shipp, however, stood alone. For Shipp, that day was eerily similar to UCLA’s […]

The Bruins had quite a few low points during their shocking loss to Cal on Thursday. The Bears’ Ayinde Ubaka scored a season-high 29 points, Arron Afflalo was held to three points, and the Bruins had 14 turnovers. So when the team got back to practice at Pauley Pavilion on Saturday, the focus was on […]

Darren Collison had a career-high 20 points on Thursday. But he couldn’t make the shot that counted. With the game tied at 61-61 with 15 seconds left, Collison took the ball into his hands on the Bruins’ final possession. But with two seconds left, Collison’s 25-foot 3-pointer was just long. The result was overtime, and […]