Shaquille O’Neal, Baron Davis and Jerry West sat courtside at Pauley Pavilion Thursday night, but even their combined star power couldn’t outshine the UCLA players on the court. Read more...
Photo: Junior guard Bryce Alford’s runner capped a play in which he made an out-of-bounds save to sophomore center Thomas Welsh before getting the ball back for a score. (Aubrey Yeo/Daily Bruin staff)
There will be a time to return to reality. But tonight is not that time. A stunning 87-77 upset over not-gonna-be-top-ranked-much-longer Kentucky Thursday gave UCLA its first win over a No. Read more...
Photo: UCLA fans celebrate after the Bruins’ 87-77 upset victory over No. 1 Kentucky Thursday night. It was the team’s first win over a top-ranked opponent in over a decade. (Aubrey Yeo/Daily Bruin senior staff)
There was no laughing or showboating for Kentucky this time. Nearly a year removed from their 83-44 shellacking of UCLA, the No. 1 Wildcats were punched in the mouth by the team they once bullied. Read more...
Photo: Freshman guard Prince Ali posterizes Kentucky’s Alex Poythress to put UCLA ahead 61-47. (Aubrey Yeo/Daily Bruin senior staff)
A former nightmare has thus far turned into a dream for the UCLA men’s basketball team. At the end of the first half, UCLA leads No. Read more...
Photo: UCLA’s defense held Kentucky to 29 points in the first half, the Wildcats’ lowest total of the season. (Aubrey Yeo/Daily Bruin staff)
The UCLA swimmers and divers, although one team, will separate for a weekend, competing with more than a thousand miles between them. For both groups, these meets serve as the final measuring stick for the improvements they’ve made over the course of 2015. Read more...
Photo: Sophomore diver Maria Polyakova and the rest of the UCLA diving team travel east this weekend to the Jean Freeman Invitational at the University of Minnesota. Polyakova will get to compete against Gopher diver Yu Zhou, the 2014 3-meter champion. (Daily Bruin file photo)
It’s 5:30 a.m. on a cool morning in early April and both senior utility Danny McClintick and junior center Patrick Woepse are headed to their morning weight training. Read more...
Photo: Senior utility Danny McClintick was involved in an automobile accident in early April, and has spent the past eight months on the road to recovery. McClintick has had some of his best performances in important games this year. (Tehya Faulk/Daily Bruin)
Forty-one to seven. That was what the scoreboard read at halftime the last time UCLA men’s basketball took on Kentucky. The Bruins trailed by 34 points heading into the locker room, having shot 8 percent from the field compared to the Wildcats’ 46. Read more...
Photo: Junior guard Bryce Alford said that the UCLA men’s basketball team tried to hype up last year’s Kentucky game too much. The Bruins fell by 39 points, and failed to score a point until the Wildcats had already taken a 24-point lead. (Aubrey Yeo/Daily Bruin senior staff)
