Steve Alford walked into the UCLA men’s basketball locker room following his team’s 83-50 blowout of Washington State and wrote a simple sentence on the whiteboard. “Tony Parker five-for-five from the line and took a charge.” It was a message the Bruin coach hadn’t sent all season. He had called out his team’s high turnover […]
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Alfords take blame for men’s basketball’s loss to Washington
Both Alfords took the blame for the first 20 minutes of UCLA’s game against Washington Thursday night. By halftime, it seemed like the game was all but over. The Bruins (12-9, 3-5 Pac-12) came out of the gates flat and careless, falling behind the Huskies (14-6, 6-2) by as many as 19 points with just […]
Men’s tennis prepares to face Georgia, Florida with lineup undecided
The UCLA men’s tennis co-captain, junior Mackie McDonald, flexed his wrist and demonstrated his newfound mobility Wednesday morning after team conditioning. He suffered a wrist fracture back in mid-December and now enough time has passed that he might be eligible to play in his first dual match of the season with the Bruins this weekend: […]
Sophomore hurdler cultivates passions for both art, athletics
It’s 5 a.m. and Kimani Austin-Reese is up and about making sure everything is in place for her school day at the Design and Architecture Senior High in Miami. It’s a daily ritual for the high school senior who travels across the city to attend classes early every weekday morning. At 4 p.m., though, Austin-Reese […]
Women’s basketball’s defensive dexterity steals wins
When the Stanford women’s basketball team was heading back home, the players were probably thinking about hands. During Sunday’s 56-36 loss to No.15 UCLA, the Cardinal saw a lot of them. Hands were in the passing lanes, hands were in the faces of the shooters, hands were denying entry passes to the post. The entire […]
Tanner’s Take: Upsets won’t be enough to guarantee Bruins a March Madness bid
The UCLA men’s basketball team knows all about the unpredictability of this year’s college basketball season. Just ask Monmouth, Washington or Washington State. More often than not, the Bruins have found themselves at the center of the madness, creating national headlines in the process. Just ask Kentucky, Gonzaga or Arizona. Plenty has been written about […]
UCLA women’s basketball shuts down No. 12 Stanford 56-36
Stanford women’s basketball has a signature style of play. The Cardinal teams are slow, deliberate, systematic and fundamentally sound. They wear teams down with their consistency and make the opposition play their style for 40 minutes. This is what Stanford generally does and Stanford does it very well – the Cardinal had only lost four […]