Author Archives: Seth Fast Glass

It was a sight that the UCLA men’s basketball team hadn’t seen for nearly two months but had already seen enough of this season. With 5:48 remaining in the first half, Bruin senior Cedric Bozeman crashed into the baseline and fell to the ground in obvious pain, spraining his left ankle after stepping on a […]

PALO ALTO ““ Following UCLA’s overtime victory over Cal on Thursday, Bruin coach Ben Howland said he would allow his team two hours to soak in the victory. After their 75-54 smothering of Stanford on Saturday to win the Pac-10 title outright, the Bruins were awarded two days off. They might need that time to […]

BERKELEY “”mdash; Forty minutes simply weren’t enough. Arron Afflalo needed more time to continue one of the best stretches of basketball of his career. Jordan Farmar needed more time to halt one of the worst stretches of basketball of his career. UCLA needed more time to stake its claim to at least a share of […]

The Pac-10 Tournament starts on March 8. The NCAA Tournament starts on March 16. The NBA starts when a college basketball player retains an agent. UCLA’s Jordan Farmar is thinking about none of them ““ for now. The sophomore point guard said he will wait until the end of this season to address any potential […]

Sunday’s game against Oregon didn’t just represent UCLA’s last home game of the 2005-06 season. It also marked the official end of the Steve Lavin era in Westwood. On Sunday, seniors Cedric Bozeman, Ryan Hollins, Michael Fey, and Janou Rubin, the last holdovers from the final days of Lavin’s coaching tenure, started and played in […]

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 […]

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 […]