LAS VEGAS—Saturday’s Pac-12 tournament final pitted one of the conference’s top scoring teams against its most dominant defensive force, two teams playing with opposing styles and doing so at the highest level they have all season. UCLA came into the tournament second in the Pac-12 in scoring, its 82 points per game just 0.5 behind […]
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UCLA advances to the PAC-12 championship game with a win over Stanford
LAS VEGAS—UCLA’s coaching staff broke down the X’s and O’s during a break in the action in the first half of the Pac-12 tournament’s second semifinal game. But there was little coach Steve Alford and his assistants could offer for improvement, as the Bruins were walloping the Stanford Cardinal on the court, never trailing by […]
UCLA men’s basketball defeats Oregon in quarterfinals of PAC-12 tournament
LAS VEGAS — One team beat No. 3 Arizona in its final regular season game. The other lost by 18 to a win-starved Washington State team. On Thursday, the two were indistinguishable. The truth of Oregon being eliminated made UCLA’s Saturday blunder in Pullman, Wash. feel, in hindsight, stranger than fiction. Find the full story […]
Bruins fall to Cougars, 73-55, in final regular season game
PULLMAN, Wash. — Someone forgot to tell the UCLA men’s basketball team that, unlike baseball, the game isn’t over after nine. In the opening moments of the Bruins’ final regular season game Saturday, a meeting with the Washington State Cougars to close out the regular season, sophomore guard/forward Kyle Anderson hit a jumper, followed by a […]
UCLA basketball defeats Washington, 91-82
SEATTLE — UCLA led by nine with just over seven minutes to play, and Jordan Adams was all smiles. The sophomore guard did so in the most unexpected of places: While getting cramps worked out of his calves and tightness wringed out of his hamstrings and quadriceps by a team trainer. Adams took a few long swigs of […]
Sand volleyball wins first game of 2014 season
Though the faces may be new and the court may be different, the UCLA sand volleyball team looked right at home Thursday as the Bruins defeated the Cal State Northridge Matadors 3-2 in their first match of the season. In all, seven different Bruins made their UCLA sand volleyball debut. However, UCLA was a far […]
UCLA men’s basketball beats Oregon State, 74-69
Coming off its first losing streak of the year, UCLA men’s basketball looked primed to see its two-game skid turn into three, as the team trailed Oregon State by nine at halftime. However, a reenergized offense in the second half turned the game around and the Bruins, behind sophomore guard Jordan Adams’ 20-point second half, […]