Bill Roth will succeed Chris Roberts as the UCLA play-by-play announcer for football and men’s basketball, UCLA announced Wednesday. UCLA’s new announcer comes from a 27-year career at Virginia Tech, where his work earned him entry to the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame and Syracuse University’s WAER Hall of Fame. Roth was also named the […]
Category Archives: Men’s Basketball
Shooting guard LiAngelo Ball verbally commits to UCLA men’s basketball
Class of 2017 shooting guard LiAngelo Ball verbally committed to UCLA men’s basketball Tuesday, according to multiple reports. Ball is a three-star prospect on Rivals.com, and is the younger brother of UCLA’s top recruit in the class of 2016 – five-star point guard Lonzo Ball. The younger Ball is listed at the same height as […]
Junior college transfer signs for UCLA men’s basketball
After committing to UCLA men’s basketball Sunday morning following a campus visit, junior college transfer Ikenna Okwarabizie signed a National Letter of Intent with the Bruins Monday. Okwarabizie will join UCLA as a sophomore after playing his freshman season at Tyler Junior College where he averaged 6.5 points, seven rebounds and 1.2 blocks. The a […]
Junior college transfer Ikenna Okwarabizie commits to UCLA basketball
Junior college transfer Ikenna Okwarabizie committed to UCLA Sunday morning following a weekend visit to campus. Okwarabizie was a standout player for Tyler Junior College in Tyler, Texas, and is originally from Nigeria. He transferred to high school in Iowa in 2013, but there were issues with his high school transcript from Nigeria and Okwarabizie […]
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar recovers from quadruple coronary bypass surgery
Former UCLA men’s basketball player and Los Angeles Lakers center Kareem Abdul-Jabbar underwent a quadruple coronary bypass surgery on Thursday at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, according to a UCLA press release. The procedure was performed by Dr. Richard Shemin, UCLA’s chief of cardiac surgery, who said he expects Abdul-Jabbar to make a full […]
UCLA men’s basketball signs three-star forward Alex Olesinski
UCLA basketball coach Steve Alford announced Wednesday that Alex Olesinski, a power forward from La Lumiere School in La Porte, Ind., has officially signed a national letter of intent. The Roswell, N.M., native will help UCLA fill its gaps at the forward position after losing freshman Kevon Looney to the 2015 NBA draft and sophomore […]
Forward Wanaah Bail to transfer from UCLA
Sophomore forward Wanaah Bail is no longer enrolled at UCLA and is transferring to another university, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday. The 6-foot-9-inch forward, who initially signed with Texas Tech University before officially enrolling at UCLA, was ruled academically ineligible on Dec. 27 after averaging 1.5 points and 2.6 rebounds over the course of […]