Fresh off a 75-71 victory over No. 4 Arizona in the final of the Pac-12 tournament, UCLA earned a No. 4 seed in the NCAA Tournament Sunday. Read more...
Photo: UCLA head coach Steve Alford is interviewed by the press following the announcement of the NCAA Basketball Championship tournament seeding. (Katie Meyers/Daily Bruin senior staff)
LAS VEGAS—Saturday’s Pac-12 tournament final pitted one of the conference’s top scoring teams against its most dominant defensive force, two teams playing with opposing styles and doing so at the highest level they have all season. Read more...
Photo: Junior guard Norman Powell and the rest of the UCLA offense repeatedly attacked the interior of the Arizona defense Saturday. Powell finished with 15 points in the Bruins’ victory. (Brandon Choe/Daily Bruin senior staff)
LAS VEGAS—One of boxing’s pound-for-pound greatest fighters in history will square off against Timothy Bradley at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on Apr. 12. But a month before Manny Pacquiao dukes it out in the ring, the building may have already had its best fight of 2014. Read more...
Photo: Sophomore guard Jordan Adams sank a three in the final minute of Saturday’s game to put UCLA up 71-68. The Bruins would not surrender the lead, defeating Arizona’s Wildcats 75-71. (Katie Meyers/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Red-hot junior guard Norman Powell scored 11 points on 4-of-5 shooting in the opening ten minutes and the Bruins jumped out to a 14-3 lead. UCLA shot 58.1 percent on the half to Arizona’s 53.3 percent from the field to earn a 43-40 halftime advantage. Read more...
LAS VEGAS—Everything seemed set up for a repeat of history Friday night. After Thursday’s big win over Oregon, reminiscent of a similar victory over Cal earlier in the season, UCLA prepared for a rematch against a hot Stanford Cardinal team that silenced the Bruins on Feb. Read more...
Photo: Freshman guard Bryce Alford and the Bruins put together one of their most complete performances of the season against the Stanford Cardinal Friday. (Katie Meyers/Daily Bruin senior staff)
LAS VEGAS—UCLA’s coaching staff broke down the X’s and O’s during a break in the action in the first half of the Pac-12 tournament’s second semifinal game. Read more...
Photo: Sophomore guard Jordan Adams drives by a Stanford defender in the Bruins’ dominant win over the Cardinal Friday night. (Brandon Choe/Daily Bruin senior staff)
UCLA made 10 of its first 16 field goal attempts to jump out to a 24-5 lead with 12:11 to play and leads 44-29 at the half in the second of two Pac-12 tournament semifinal games. Read more...
