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Bruins Hang On In The Palouse For 63-60 Win

  They needed this one. Badly. And it wasn’t easy; nor was it pretty. First off, UCLA was without forward Travis Wear, who suffered a high ankle sprain in the Bruins’ loss to the Washington…Read More

Bruins Fall Apart Down The Stretch And Lose, 71-69

  As I had said before UCLA’s battle with Washington in Seattle, I didn’t expect the Bruins to beat the first place Huskies. Not on the road. But what ended up happening was much worse,…Read More

Bruin Hoops Preview: Washington and Washington State

UCLA’S UPCOMING OPPONENTS: Washington Huskies,  Alaska Airlines Arena, Seattle, WA, Thursday, February 2, 6:00 p.m. Record:  14-7, 7-2 in the Pac-12 Conference Well, I regret to say that the…Read More

Bruins Do As Expected, Blow Out Utah 76-49

  I remember this happening before – UCLA coming off some losses and on a bit of a downturn, then facing a very beatable team and handling their business. It happened earlier this season when…Read More

Bruin Hoops Preview: Utah and Colorado

UCLA’S NEXT OPPONENTS: Utah Utes, Los Angeles Sports Arena, Thursday, January 26, 7:30 p.m. Record: 5-14, 2-5 in the Pac-12 Conference After falling apart in the state of Oregon, these Utes from…Read More

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Beavers Dam Up UCLA, 87-84

  It is generally agreed by the pundits that for a Pac-12 basketball team to win the conference…Read More

Bruin Hoops Preview: Oregon State and Oregon

UCLA’S UPCOMING OPPONENTS: Oregon State Beavers, Gill Coliseum, Corvallis, OR, Thursday, January…Read More

Bruin Hoops Preview: USC

  UPCOMING OPPONENT: USC Trojans, Sunday, January 15, Galen Center, 6:00 p.m. The Crosstown Rivalry…Read More

Shorthanded Sun Devils No Match For Bruins, 75-58

  Going into this Pac-12 contest with an Arizona State team that had suspended three players - two…Read More

Bruins Wear Arizona Out, 65-58

Apparently, all those pundits and fans who were predicting the UCLA basketball team’s loss to…Read More

Bruin Hoops Preview: Arizona and Arizona State

As 2012 and the Pac-12 Conference basketball season unfolds in earnest, I’m sure that Ben Howland…Read More

Tough Loss For Bruins At The Farm, 60-59

Here was the scenario at Maples Pavilion on the Stanford campus Thursday night as the Pacific-12 Conference…Read More

Bruin Hoops Preview: Stanford and California

Now it begins: the real work, the real tests. Ben Howland’s UCLA basketball team did quite well…Read More

Bruins Cut Down The Spiders’ Web In 71-63 Win

It looked like UCLA was getting a bit of arachniphobia Friday night. The Richmond Spiders, a solid mid-major…Read More

Bruins Are Businesslike In Dismantling UC Irvine, 89-60

It wasn’t quite as overwhelming a blowout as the game against the UC Davis Aggies was, but UCLA’s…Read More

Joshua Smith Leads Bruins In Walloping Of UC Davis

There is nothing like a 1-8 team whose only win this year is against a Division III school to get a…Read More

Guards Get It Done In Bruins’ Second Straight Win

It sure was nice to see UCLA play well in consecutive games and get back-to-back wins on the hardwood. It…Read More

Bruin Football And Basketball Tidbits: What’s Going On?

Besides Jim L. Mora being introduced as UCLA’s 19th head football coach at the Morgan Center on…Read More

No Reeves, No Problem As Bruins Beat Penn, 77-73

For at least one day, UCLA’s basketball program was successful in adding by subtraction as they…Read More