Basketball Preview: Coach Howland addresses team’s sub-par screen setting

Puzzled at his frontcourt players’ inability to set screens last Sunday at USC, UCLA men’s basketball coach Ben Howland sent assistant coach Kerry Keating across the hall to Bruin football coach Karl Dorrell’s office armed with a question. Howland wanted to know what is generally considered a successful block rate in football, analogizing that to […]

Basketball Preview: Trying to get back on track

There’s a tinge of added pressure around the UCLA men’s basketball program these days, and it’s not just coming from the television cameras creeping closer and closer to coach Ben Howland’s press conference podium. It’s emanating from a two-game losing streak, the Bruins’ longest this season, coming at quite the inopportune time. It’s emerging from […]