For the majority of the past two decades, UCLA has reigned as basketball royalty in Los Angeles, crowned champion over crosstown rival USC 30 out of their 43 meetings since the 1994-1995 season and in seven of the past eight matchups. That throne may finally be contested Wednesday. As the Bruins (10-7, 2-2 Pac-12) continue […]
Category Archives: Men’s Basketball
Coach Steve Alford’s goal-setting meeting sparks Bruins’ turnaround
When UCLA men’s basketball returned home, battered and bruised, from its four-game road trip having lost five straight games, coach Steve Alford took to the whiteboard to get his team back on track. Nine days, three wins. Those words that Alford wrote became a rallying cry for a team needing to turn its season around […]
Bo Knows: Backlash on Steve Alford after five-game losing streak unwarranted
For a fan base that rarely fills the seats of Pauley Pavilion and that cheers louder for winning coupons to Yogurtland than its team winning games, UCLA basketball fans certainly seem passionate in their opinions of second-year coach Steve Alford. As the Bruins languished in their five-game losing streak, pockmarked by their embarrassing blowout losses […]
Pac-12 men’s basketball power rankings: Jan. 13
With the second week of Pac-12 conference play in the books, Daily Bruin Sports gives its take on which teams are the best and worst in the conference. 1. No. 8 Utah (13-2, 3-0) Through the early goings of the Pac-12 slate, Utah has proven itself as the conference’s top team thus far. The Utes […]
Strong defense by UCLA men’s basketball smothers Cal in 73-54 victory
In Thursday’s victory over Stanford, UCLA utilized a suffocating defensive effort over the final 10 minutes of regulation to send the game into the first of two overtimes. The Bruins didn’t wait quite as long on Sunday. UCLA put together a stifling defensive performance, and all five starters reached double digits in scoring to claim […]
UCLA men’s basketball leads Cal 31-26 at halftime
After snapping a five-game losing streak with a double-overtime win over Stanford on Thursday, UCLA men’s basketball looked to build on that positivity with another win against a Cal team that has lost four of five. At halftime, UCLA is on pace to earn its second straight win, leading Cal 31-26. Both teams came out […]
Men’s basketball snaps losing streak with 86-81 Stanford win
It took nearly everything they had in the tank, but the Bruins did it. UCLA needed two overtimes, a Willis Reed moment from senior guard Norman Powell and the performance of a lifetime from freshman forward Kevon Looney, but the team got a win, finally. In the midst of a five-game losing streak, including four-straight […]