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 fights to 75-71 Pac-12 tournament win over Arizona
LAS VEGAS—One of boxing’s pound-for-pound greatest fighters in history will square off against Timothy Bradley at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on Apr. 12. But a month before Manny Pacquiao dukes it out in the ring, the building may have already had its best fight of 2014. The lead changed ten times in a knock-down, […]
UCLA leads Arizona 43-40 at halftime
Red-hot junior guard Norman Powell scored 11 points on 4-of-5 shooting in the opening ten minutes and the Bruins jumped out to a 14-3 lead. UCLA shot 58.1 percent on the half to Arizona’s 53.3 percent from the field to earn a 43-40 halftime advantage.
Bruins flip script in blowout win against Cardinal
LAS VEGAS—Everything seemed set up for a repeat of history Friday night. After Thursday’s big win over Oregon, reminiscent of a similar victory over Cal earlier in the season, UCLA prepared for a rematch against a hot Stanford Cardinal team that silenced the Bruins on Feb. 22 following their win over the Golden Bears. […]
UCLA defeats Stanford, heads to Pac-12 final against Arizona
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 leads Stanford 44-29 at halftime
UCLA made 10 of its first 16 field goal attempts to jump out to a 24-5 lead with 12:11 to play and leads 44-29 at the half in the second of two Pac-12 tournament semifinal games.
Bruin twins wear out Ducks
LAS VEGAS — If the Oregon Ducks ever have nightmares about the UCLA men’s basketball team, they’ll have two Bruins haunting them. But they’ll only see one face. In their two most recent games against the Bruins, the Ducks fell victim to twins – UCLA’s redshirt senior forwards David and Travis Wear – who gave […]