A little less than a month later, UCLA still couldn’t slow Oregon down. Instead, the Bruins sped right past them. After a dizzying back and forth first half, UCLA dominated the final 20 minutes to avenge its January loss and move into a third-place tie in the Pac-12 with Oregon by virtue of the Bruins’ […]
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Men’s tennis heads to Chicago for indoor championships
UCLA men’s tennis headed off to Chicago early Tuesday morning to prepare for one of the biggest tournaments of the year, the ITA Division I National Men’s Team Indoor Championship. This tournament features the top 16 teams in the country. The only other tournament that spouts such a high caliber of competition is the NCAA […]
Men’s basketball’s early lead secures win against Oregon State
Sophomore guard Bryce Alford spoke Tuesday about the necessity to get the ball to the bigs inside to break Oregon State’s disruptive zone defense, which forced UCLA into shooting just 30.6 percent in its loss to Oregon State last month. At the start of Wednesday night’s game at Pauley Pavilion, the Bruins decided to cut […]
Women’s basketball’s Cori Close carries forward Coach Wooden’s legacy at UCLA
Twenty-one years ago, in the spring of 1994, coach Cori Close, then the restricted-earnings coach for the UCLA women’s basketball team, was not prepared. She was dressed in sweats one Tuesday evening when Steve Lavin, her counterpart on the men’s basketball team, told her that she was coming with him to coach John Wooden’s apartment […]
Women’s golf stumbles out of top 10 after day two of tournament
The women’s golf team has returned to action and is currently off to a poor start at the Northrop Grumman Regional Challenge at Palos Verdes Estates. After day one, the seventh-ranked Bruins were tied for ninth as they posted a team score of 13-over par. Sophomore Bronte Law was the only player to record a […]
Men’s volleyball defeats CSU Northridge for second MPSF win
The UCLA men’s volleyball team picked up its second conference win on Friday at Cal State Northridge in a match that threatened to be a repeat of Wednesday’s upset loss to Long Beach State. UCLA (6-4, 2-4 MPSF) fought its way past CSUN (5-6, 3-4 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation) in four sets (25-17, 17-25, 25-18, […]
Team, family support senior swimmer Courtney Wilde through recovery
Two days before UCLA swim and dive was set to leave for last season’s Pac-12 tournament, Courtney Wilde was feeling ill. “I knew something was wrong when I woke up but I couldn’t really put my finger on what it was,” said the senior captain. Chalking it up to dehydration, Wilde pushed herself to go […]