This post was updated March 2 at 12:15 a.m. The highlight plays came in bunches Wednesday as No. 3 UCLA pummeled an overmatched Washington team 98-66 at Pauley Pavilion, but the defining moment of the game was a sour one for the Bruins. Read more...
Photo: TJ Leaf sprained his ankle in the first five minutes of UCLA’s game against Washington. The freshman forward sat out for the rest of the matchup. (Keila Mayberry/Daily Bruin staff)
A left ankle sprain to freshman forward T.J. Leaf overshadowed UCLA’s first-half dominance against Washington on Wednesday night. The Bruins headed into halftime with a 49-28 lead, but the most notable moment of the game came less than five minutes in, when Leaf landed on the foot of Washington’s Noah Dickerson and crumpled to the ground along the UCLA baseline. Read more...
Photo: Freshman forward TJ Leaf won’t return in Wednesday’s game against Washington after spraining his ankle early in the first half. (Keila Mayberry/Daily Bruin staff)
Men’s basketballTuAnh Dam, Sports editor Just one week left until postseason play begins and every team is trying to get one last good impression in before Selection Sunday. Read more...
Photo: Jovan Vavic, the head coach of both men’s and women’s water polo at USC, recently beat Stanford in the championship game of the Barbara Kalbus Invitational. (Jintak Han/Assistant Photo editor)
The Bruins played one very bad inning Tuesday. UCLA baseball (4-3) let in four runs and committed two errors in the sixth, resulting in a 6-5 road loss to Cal State Northridge (4-4) Tuesday afternoon. Read more...
Photo: Sean Bouchard went three for three with a home run and a walk in Tuesday’s loss to Cal State Northridge. On the season, the junior first baseman is batting .478 with a slugging percentage of 1.000. (Isabelle Roy/Daily Bruin senior staff)
When Kelsey O’Brien, a senior attacker on the UCLA women’s water polo team, first walked onto UCLA’s campus, she was 11 years old. She had a cousin who went to UCLA at the time so Kelsey and her father, Joe O’Brien, stopped by to visit after a water polo tournament. Read more...
Photo: Senior attacker Kelsey O’Brien won five Junior Olympic titles with the Santa Barbara Water Polo Club before she came to UCLA. She has deep connections with UC Santa Barbara’s water polo team, but committed to Westwood instead. (Aubrey Yeo/Daily Bruin senior staff)
In theory, Wednesday’s matchup with Washington should be a cakewalk for the UCLA men’s basketball team. The Bruins are simply better on both ends of the floor, and the Huskies’ star freshman point guard Markelle Fultz is questionable with a sore knee. Read more...
Photo: Freshman forward T.J. Leaf and UCLA outrebounded Arizona 35-28 in their road victory Saturday, representing a major turnaround from the teams’ previous matchup in January. (Aubrey Yeo/Daily Bruin senior staff)
The Bruins have a busy week. Busier than usual. After taking two out of three games against Gonzaga last weekend, UCLA baseball (4-2) will play Cal State Northridge (3-4) on Tuesday and the Korea Baseball Organization’s NC Dinos on Wednesday in an exhibition game. Read more...
Photo: Justin Hooper will make his first start of the season Tuesday. The sophomore lefty has made two impressive relief appearances, holding opposing batters to a .111 average so far in 2017. (Austin Yu/Daily Bruin senior staff)
