Upon stepping off the team bus in Westwood after a successful sweep of the Oregon schools, Arron Afflalo took a glance to his left and saw exactly what he didn’t want to see. A gym. Lights on. Nobody in it. Normally, the sophomore guard would have wasted no time dragging his luggage into the gym […]
Author Archives: Seth Fast Glass
UCLA defense stifles Oregon State
CORVALLIS, Ore. “”mdash; In the basement of Gill Coliseum following Saturday’s game, protective curtains were set up to shield the UCLA men’s basketball team from onlookers as players traversed between their locker room and the showers across the hall. But at the midway point of the Pac-10 schedule, it’s no longer a secret what the […]
A garbled name for himself
EUGENE, Ore. “”mdash; As students began to file into McArthur Court about an hour prior to tip-off Thursday, some of their first verbal jabs were directed toward UCLA’s Luc Richard Mbah a Moute. The Bruin freshman, who earlier in the week admitted he’d never heard of “Mac Court” and its reputation for being one of […]
Afflalo shuts down top Oregon shooter
EUGENE, Ore. “”mdash; Buried in Oregon’s press release, handed out before Thursday’s game, was the contrived stat that Duck sophomore Malik Hairston scores 71 percent of his points in the second half. On Thursday, UCLA defenders dwindled that number to as low a percentage as they possibly could ““ zero. In their 56-49 victory over […]
Bozeman expected back on court
It hasn’t happened all that often this season, but there was some good news on the injury front to come out of UCLA coach Ben Howland’s weekly press conference. Redshirt senior Cedric Bozeman ““ out of the lineup since Dec. 27, 2005, after tearing cartilage in his left shoulder ““ practiced with light contact Tuesday […]
Basketball moves up one spot in AP
That the UCLA men’s basketball team shifted position in the Associated Press Poll after its loss to West Virginia was to be expected. That the direction the Bruins moved was up was somewhat of a surprise. After holding onto the No. 18 ranking last week, UCLA (15-4, 5-2 Pac-10) moved up one spot to No. […]
Bruins fall just short of summit
A chance to finally catch West Virginia. A chance to finally knock off a top-20 team. A chance to finally make a statement on national television when so many other teams on Saturday didn’t. With a flick of the wrist, Mike Gansey stole all of these away from UCLA on Saturday afternoon. Clinging ever so […]