UCLA football added three-star defensive lineman Osa Odighizuwa to its 2016 recruiting class on Tuesday night, Bruin Report Online initially reported. The name should be familiar for UCLA fans. Odighizuwa is the younger brother of former five-star Bruin defensive end Owamagbe Odighizuwa, who was selected by the New York Giants with the 74th overall pick […]
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Men’s volleyball endures ups and downs of 2015 youthful trend
The 2015 season will likely go down in the storied history of UCLA men’s volleyball as a rebuilding year in every sense of the term. With four starting freshmen and only one starting upperclassman, the Bruins’ youth became their defining – and often limiting – characteristic. Despite it being a year of ups and downs […]
Top-seeded Irvine ends men’s volleyball’s season in first round blowout
For a UCLA team playing some of its best volleyball of the 2015 season, Saturday night was something of a letdown. No. 8-seed UCLA (13-14, 9-13 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation), already guaranteed to have a challenge on its hands in No. 1-seed UC Irvine (26-4, 19-3), fell flat in its season finale, dropping out of […]
UCLA uproots Stanford, clinches playoff spot in regular season finale
UCLA men’s volleyball traveled to Stanford on Friday night in a last-ditch effort to sneak into the 2015 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Tournament. There was nothing sneaky, however, about the visiting Bruins’ 3-0 sweep of the Cardinal. No. 12 UCLA (13-13, 9-13 MPSF) dominated the entire court, delivering one of its most decisive victories of […]
UCLA seeks to bridge peaks, valleys in competition with consistent play
In just two days this weekend, the UCLA men’s volleyball team will travel from the highest peak of the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation to the lowest valley – all without ever leaving Pauley Pavilion. No. 12 UCLA (11-12, 7-12 MPSF) hosts No. 4 UC Irvine (23-4, 17-3) on Friday before shifting its attention to unranked […]
Bruins sink below .500 after succumbing to Waves
UCLA men’s volleyball already knew that it had a challenge ahead when it made the short drive to Malibu on Tuesday to face conference powerhouse Pepperdine University. Then it ran into itself. On a night when the biggest obstacle for the Bruins should have been the team standing across the court, it was instead their […]
Bruins face daunting rematch against Waves with season on line
BY TANNER WALTERSBruin Sports contributortwalters@media.ucla.edu The clock is ticking on the 2015 season for the UCLA men’s volleyball team. With four matches left and the Bruins currently tied for the eighth and final spot in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Tournament, the only time to make a move is now. The team will get a […]