Lisa Willis has loved UCLA ever since she first picked up a basketball in the third grade. Although two of her prep teammates at Narbonne High School, juniors Jessica Cheeks and Ebony Hoffman, currently start for the USC women’s basketball team, Willis chose to come to Westwood. Read more...

Just how insane does it get inside of Oregon’s McArthur Court, aka The Pit, aka the house of horrors for visiting teams? Two years ago in a game against Top-10 Arizona, officials told head coach Ernie Kent that he needed to quiet the crowd while Arizona shot free throws or else face a technical foul. Read more...

UCLA basketball fans need to refamiliarize themselves with the name Walton. Thirty years ago Bill, the dad, helped make the Bruins one of the greatest basketball dynasties ever. Read more...

Only Miss Cleo, fully armed with tarot cards and a gigantic bottle of rum could have predicted last year’s Pac-10 season. UCLA was picked to finish first, and ended up sixth, its worst conference finish ever. Read more...

UCLA finally decided to press the issue. That is, they finally decided to use the much talked about but little used full court press defense in their 81-58 win over Long Beach State. Read more...

The Washington Huskies are used to being mocked. Throughout the past 15 seasons, the team has been incessantly bad, finishing in the bottom half of the conference in 13 of those seasons and only making the NCAA tournament twice. Read more...

MALIBU ““ Long Beach State head coach Brian Gimmillaro will be home today, but not under the circumstances he was hoping for. After the 49ers grumbled all week about not having the chance to host their first two postseason matches, the UCLA women’s volleyball team provided a figurative gag order. Read more...