UCLA men’s basketball pulled off the improbable Thursday, knocking off top-ranked Kentucky in front of 12,202 fans at Pauley Pavilion. Students decked out in gold shirts ran onto the court as the band played a triumphant round of “Sons of Westwood” and a resurgent Bruin squad celebrated their first upset of a No. Read more...
Photo: Freshman guard Prince Ali celebrates with coach Steve Alford following the Bruins’ upset win. (Aubrey Yeo/Daily Bruin senior staff)
I still haven’t seen the video. I don’t know if I want to. I don’t know if I want to force myself to judge it through the same lens as every other highlight-reel play I’ve seen in my life. Read more...
Photo: Freshman guard Prince Ali reacts after his highlight reel dunk rocked Pauley Pavilion Thursday night. Ali and the Bruins would go on to upset the No. 1 Kentucky Wildcats. (Aubrey Yeo/Daily Bruin senior staff)
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)
