Category Archives: Men’s Basketball

Berkeley, CALIFORNIA — Saturday was a tale of two zones for UCLA. The Bruins shot lights out from 3-point distance, making 17 of their 30 attempts, including 9-of-11 after halftime. On the defensive end, UCLA’s 3-2 zone wreaked havoc on Cal’s offense. The Bears shot only 18.2 percent on 3-pointers and 25.6 percent overall in the […]

Two games into Pac-12 play, the Bruins seemed to have put their free-throw woes behind them. Their struggles from the charity stripe were as bad as ever Thursday night, though, as UCLA men’s basketball (11-4, 2-1 Pac-12) coughed up a 13-point second-half lead before losing 107-99 in double overtime at Stanford (7-8, 1-1). The Bruins […]

This post was updated Dec. 31 at 9:20 p.m. The Bruins are becoming a second-half team. After entering intermission down eight points, UCLA (11-3, 2-0 Pac-12) outscored Washington (11-4, 1-1) by 29 points after halftime to record its fourth win in a row by a score of 74-53. For the second game in a row, […]

This post was updated Dec. 29 at 11:32 p.m. Aaron Holiday was four points away from setting his single-game point record – at halftime. The junior guard matched it with his 27th point midway through the second half before slowing down and totaling 33 to lead unranked UCLA men’s basketball (10-3, 1-0 Pac-12) to a […]

The early part of the season has been frustrating for UCLA men’s basketball, with its most memorable headlines stemming from the arrest of three players for shoplifting in China. The Bruins started to change the narrative Saturday. UCLA (9-3) upset No. 7 Kentucky (9-2) 83-75 at the CBS Sports Classic in New Orleans. Junior guard […]