This post was updated Feb. 18 at 9:14 p.m. After a first half of playing catch-up to the Wildcats, it was the Bruins who sat in the driver’s seat during the second – stepping on the gas and never looking back.  Trailing by as many as eight points in the opening period, UCLA men’s basketball (15-5, 11-3 Pac-12) defeated Arizona (14-8, 8-8) 74-60 to notch its first win of a weekend homestand with less than a month to play in the conference schedule. Read more...

Photo: Sophomore guard/forward Jaime Jaquez Jr. scored a career-high 25 points on his 20th birthday as UCLA men’s basketball finished off a season sweep of Arizona on Thursday night. (Andy Bao/Daily Bruin)

While wins have been hard to come by for the Bruins on the court over the past few weeks, they picked one up on the recruiting trail Wednesday. Read more...

Photo: Five-star Sierra Canyon guard Amari Bailey committed to UCLA men’s basketball Wednesday. Bailey averaged 15.6 points per game as a sophomore and has been heralded as a future first-round draft pick. (Nick Lucero/Rivals.com)