UCLA will honor former UCLA men’s basketball star Russell Westbrook on Thursday night in Pauley Pavilion. In December 2015, UCLA announced that Westbrook’s donation to the Mo Ostin Basketball Center project was the largest by a former basketball student-athlete in school history, although the amount was undisclosed. In his two years in Westwood, Westbrook played […]
Category Archives: Men’s Basketball
Bruins bank on renewed intensity in match against No. 7 Wildcats
The UCLA men’s basketball team has been in this situation before, facing a top-10 team at Pauley Pavilion. The game occurred on the first Thursday of December, against then-No. 1 Kentucky. It turned out to be one of the Bruins’ best games in recent memory, as they led for more than 38 minutes and captured […]
Matchup against Arizona hinges on Bryce Alford’s shooting game
Junior guard Bryce Alford is in the midst of the best season of his collegiate career, leading UCLA men’s basketball in scoring, assists and free throw percentage. Alford is also, however, in one of the worst shooting slumps of his career, shooting 21.9 percent from field goal range over the past two games. “He’s drawing, […]
Bruins look to bounce back after conference opening losses
A matchup with No. 7 Arizona might not have come at a better time for an unranked UCLA team that dropped two straight games to begin Pac-12 conference play. Thursday night’s conference home-opener serves as a litmus test to discover if the Bruins (9-6, 0-2 Pac-12) are a team college basketball needs to keep an […]
Men’s basketball geared up to curb recurrent turnover problems
UCLA men’s basketball gives itself a lot of chances for success. The program recruits well, develops its players, competes against elite talent successfully – but then throws it away. Literally. Turnovers are proving to be the Bruins’ Achilles’ heel this season and could be the key to its big conference matchup with No. 7 Arizona […]
UCLA men’s basketball outhustled, outplayed in Washington weekend
PULLMAN, Wash. — With 43 seconds to go, coach Steve Alford put his right palm completely over his face, as if to shield himself from the jarring reality at hand. His team was trailing by eight points to lowly Washington State – a team that was picked to finish dead last in the Pac-12. A […]
UCLA loses second straight Pac-12 matchup to Washington State 85-78
PULLMAN, Wash. – This isn’t the same UCLA men’s basketball team that toppled then-No. 1 Kentucky and then-No. 20 Gonzaga. That team might have been left back in 2015. The Bruins came out flat to start Pac-12 conference play. Friday night it was too many turnovers and lack of execution. Sunday night turned into a […]