UCLA is flexing its muscles against a weak Utah team here at the Sports Arena and goes into the halftime locker room leading 36-21.
Playing in their first game at the Sports Arena since Dec.
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_UCLA and Utah basketball, both once-great teams, have now fallen on hard times_
“Our coeds are the fairest and each one’s a shining star. Our yell, you hear it ringing through the mountains near and far. Who am I, sir? A Utah man am I.”
UCLA men's basketball falls to Oregon 75-68
EUGENE, Ore. “”mdash; UCLA is a basketball school.
Oregon is a football school.
For one half of basketball at Matthew Knight Arena on Saturday, those titles held true.
UCLA leading Oregon 37-24 at halftime
EUGENE, Ore. “”mdash; The UCLA basketball team must have taken coach Ben Howland seriously when he talked about improving their defense after Thursday’s loss to Oregon State.
After one half of play, UCLA is holding Oregon to 22.6 percent shooting and leads 37-24 at Matthew Knight Arena.
Redshirt sophomore forwards Travis and David Wear each have eight points to lead the Bruins.
UCLA falls to Oregon State
CORVALLIS, Ore. ””mdash; Oregon State came into Thursday’s game at Gill Coliseum having lost to UCLA 13 straight times. From the outset of Thursday’s game, it was clear the Beavers could play with the once-powerful Bruins.
UCLA narrowly trails Oregon State at the half, 39-38
CORVALLIS, Ore. “”mdash; After a rocky, back-and-forth first half of basketball here at Gill Coliseum, UCLA trails Oregon State 39-38 at the break.
The Beavers’ pressure defense has forced the Bruins to turn the ball over six times, including an embarrassing fumbled pass from senior guard Jerime Anderson to freshman guard Norman Powell that resulted in an embarrassing backcourt violation.
Redshirt sophomore forward Traivs Wear leads the Bruins in scoring with 10 and is the only Bruin in double figures.
Men’s basketball places March Madness hopes in playoff tournament
Last season’s Pac-10 basketball player of the year was Arizona’s Derrick Williams, the No. 2 overall pick in the 2011 NBA draft.
The leading scorer in the Pac-12 conference to date is Oregon State’s Jared Cunningham, who isn’t getting so much as a sniff at the NBA’s first round by draft experts and is relatively unknown to those outside of the conference’s scope.