NCAA tournament team previews: UCLA Bruins
As part of its preview of the 2015 NCAA mens basketball tournament, SI.com is taking a look at all 68 teams in the field. RPI and SOS data from realtimerpi.com. Adjusted offense and defense are from kenpom.com and measure the number of points scored .
UCLA BASKETBALL: Week 15 Hoops QandA -- Post Desert Letdown Edition
chrissorr: UCLA is in big trouble if Tony is checked out for the season -- we can debate later if they can still get into the NCAA or not. He seems easily frustrated. The three things that bother him most are: not getting the ball when hes established.
UCLA Basketball: NCAA Tournament Selection Show Open.
With the loss to Arizona, UCLA is still on the bubble -- the wrong side of it according to most bracketologists. Weve got an hour of pins and needles coming up, and then the NIT announcement after that.
SMUs Brown, UCLAs Alford sing Cats praises
SMU coach Larry Brown, Caliparis boss at Kansas many years ago, is plenty proud of his former prot��g��. And dazzled by the Cats. I think theyd honestly make the playoffs in the Eastern Conference if they were in the NBA, said Brown, who coached nine .
UCLA Basketball: Week 17 Hoops QandA -- Looking Back.
chrissorr: I dont think I was so crazy to think UCLA could finish in second (UCLA underperformed despite the media prediction of fourth place). Oregon did it with a skeleton team. Hand it to Altman. Though the top slime in the��.
UCLA BASKETBALL: The Selection Committees Rankings
UCLAs inclusion in the NCAA Tournament is controversial, but it turns out that the Selection Committee ranked UCLA No. 42. The Bruins were actually safe under numerous scenarios according to the Committee. So how did the bubble teams do against other .
News Roundup: UCLA Basketball Dismantles USC Again.
Just SC has now lost 11 of the 12 games to UCLA in basketball or football. Just SC has been terrible. Despite their coachs (seemingly hired mainly because his wife looks good on TV) statements that they would play fast and��.
UCLA BASKETBALL Alumnus Jack Haley Passes Away at Age 51
An avid skier and surfer, he attended Huntington Beach HS and did not start playing basketball until his second year (1983-84) at Golden West College, when he averaged 11.0ppg and 7.8rpg before transferring to UCLA. Haleys father, Jack, was a 1959 U.
News Roundup of UCLA Basketball Win Over OSU: X.
As GBruin pointed out in his postgame, seemingly where UCLA plays is as an important as who they play. UCLA can lose to anyone on the road and will beat most teams at home. Another bonus of being at home is that��.
UCLA BASKETBALL: Alford Presser -- ASU and Norman.
Steve Alford spoke this afternoon about the upcoming ASU game, Xs and Os, and Norman Powells growth to a potential first rounder. Nothing on PAC-12 standings or an NCAA bid this week.https://www.youtube.com/em.
UCLA BASKETBALL: The Selection Committees Rankings.
UCLAs inclusion in the NCAA Tournament is controversial, but it turns out that the Selection Committee ranked UCLA No. 42. The Bruins were actually safe under numerous scenarios according to the Committee. So how did��.
UCLA BASKETBALL: Washington Preview -- Easy Final Stretch at Pauley
UCLA lost two games in the desert last week, and control over their own destiny for third place in the PAC-12. The Bruins enter the final stretch of the season playing the three worst teams in the league at home. Thats the easy part -- if Tony Parker.
UCLA BASKETBALL: Poll -- NCAA or NIT. - Bruins Nation
How in the hell did Oregon lock up third place? How are all the bubble teams across the country winning? The road map to a bid has gotten progressively tougher since the ASU loss. Are we in or are we out? What do you��.
UCLA BASKETBALL: UAB Preview -- The Stats
UCLA squeaked by SMU in controversial fashion. They appeared to outplay the Mustangs for 30 minutes, but once again, the Bruins had 12 minute fever, and SMU went a 19-0 run. Regardless, the Bruins are in the Round of 32, and facing an opponent .
UCLA BASKETBALL Faces Larry Brown for the First Time
I was trying to think what to write about with regard to Larry Brown, coach of a SMU squad that faces UCLA. Of course, here he is fondly remembered at UCLA for his 1979-1980 KiKi Vandeweghe led team that featured four freshmen that went all the way to.
Perspective on the Current State of UCLA Basketball.
UCLA is now 63% likely to make the tournament. Thats nice but is really a reason to celebrate? How does the program look long term?
UCLA BASKETBALL: The Arizona Offense Paradox - Bruins.
Over the past few years, we Bruin fans in the BN community have criticized the Arizona Wildcats offense. Its understandable. In the last six meetings, UCLA is 3-3 including two in the PAC-12 Tournament. One loss was by two��.
UCLA mens basketball leads SMU 34-30 at halftime
LOUISVILLE, Ky. ��� Thirty minutes before UCLAs second-round NCAA tournament game against Southern Methodist University, No. 14-seed University of Alabama-Birmingham upset No. 3-seed Iowa State, paving a much easier path to the Sweet 16 for the .
News Roundup: UCLA BASKETBALL Dismantles USC Again
Just SC has now lost 11 of the 12 games to UCLA in basketball or football. Just SC has been terrible. Despite their coachs (seemingly hired mainly because his wife looks good on TV) statements that they would play fast and UCLA would play slow, UCLA.
Next Up in March Madness For UCLA: UAB Blazers
UCLAs is pretty good at defensive rebounding at 74% (54th) and that may help to off-set UABs offensive rebounding prowess (though it did not the first game). Defensive rebounding for UAB is weak--they only rebound 69.7% of missed shots (228th) while .
Controversial goaltending call lifts UCLA over SMU | The.
[DraftKings: Free $25,000 March Madness Fantasy Basketball Contest]. Moreira was called for a goaltend on a shot that clearly looked off-line from the son of UCLA coach Steve Alford. In the officials judgment, that means that��.
UCLA mens basketball defeats UAB, advances to Sweet 16
With a 92-75 win over the University of Alabama-Birmingham in the Round of 32 Saturday, UCLA punched its ticket to Houston for the next round of the NCAA Tournament, thanks largely to a career performance from junior forward/center Tony Parker.
Athletic training and performance facility to be named Mo.
UCLAs new on-campus basketball training and performance facility that will house the Bruins storied mens and womens basketball programs will be named the Mo Ostin Basketball Center, it was announced today by��.
UCLA BASKETBALL: Arizona Post-game Analysis - Bruins Nation
1) Other than the talent level, injuries and coaches, why did UCLA lose Fridays Arizona game? chrissorr: Isaac Hamilton took himself out of the game with fouls. He only played 15 minutes. I dont know how this turned out to��.
Coach Alford Admits a Major Failing in Todays UCLA.
Defensively were contesting shots. Which we really werent doing three weeks ago. Ponder that for a second. Isnt one of the most basic parts of basketball defense contesting shots? We werent doing that until three weeks��.
John Adams on controversial ending to UCLA-SMU game
The NCAA national coordinator of mens basketball officiating John Adams spoke with Ernie Johnson, Charles Barkley, Clark Kellogg and Kenny Smith about the controversial goaltending call at the end the game between SMU and UCLA. Watch your Team .
UCLA BASKETBALL vs SMU: The Highs and Lows
UCLA did a fairly good job on defense for about 32 minutes of the game. The zone defense zapped the teams momentum in the first half, but on the whole, it was one of the teams better man-to-man efforts. Low: For the other 8 minutes, the wheels came.
UCLA BASKETBALL Falls at No. 7 Arizona, 57-47
TUCSON, Ariz. - Bryce Alford scored a game-leading 22 points as UCLA dropped a 57-47 decision to No. 7 Arizona before a sold-out crowd of 14,655 at McKale Center on Saturday night. UCLA opened both the first and second halves on scoring runs but was .
UCLA BASKETBALL: Arizona Post-game Analysis
The inability to get the ball to the big men in the paint was a huge problem for UCLA. That could be attributed to Arizonas defense, a lack of either proper in-game coaching by Alford and his staff or an inability to execute on the part of our players.
UCLA BASKETBALL: Week 15 Hoops QandA -- Post Desert.
Close, but no cigar! The Bruins lost two game in the desert, and now have to pray for Oregon and Stanford meltdowns and do very well in the PAC-12 Tournament. We take a close look at what happened.
UCLA BASKETBALL: PAC-12 Tournament Preview Part III.
Get ready for a lot of PAC-12 Hoops action starting today at Noon PT. After eight days off, UCLA plays the winner of ASU/USC Thursday at 2:30 PT. BN has your brackets, analysis and predictions here.
UCLA mens basketball enters NCAA tournament as No. 11.
Following a fourth-place finish in the Pac-12 and a semifinal exit at the Pac-12 tournament, UCLA (20-13) sent the college basketball world into a tizzy Sunday as it made it into the NCAA tournament as an 11th seed. UCLA��.