UCLA Basketball

With a 92-75 win over the University of Alabama-Birmingham in the Round of 32 Saturday, UCLA punched its ticket to Houston for the next round of the NCAA Tournament, thanks largely to a career performance from junior forward/center Tony Parker. With the loss to Arizona, UCLA is still on the bubble — the wrong side … Read more

UCLA squeaked by SMU in controversial fashion. They appeared to outplay the Mustangs for 30 minutes, but once again, the Bruins had 12 minute fever, and SMU went a 19-0 run. Regardless, the Bruins are in the Round of 32, and facing an opponent  UCLA's is pretty good at defensive rebounding at 74% (54th) and … Read more

Following a fourth-place finish in the Pac-12 and a semifinal exit at the Pac-12 tournament, UCLA (20-13) sent the college basketball world into a tizzy Sunday as it made it into the NCAA tournament as an 11th seed. UCLA  LOUISVILLE — UCLA was the most controversial inclusion in this NCAA tournament — and now the … Read more

UCLA's freshman superstar Zach LaVine flees Steve Alford's program. This is UCLA's 10th trip to Steve-16 in last 20 years. We call this "Steve-16" around here because 5 of those trips came under Steve Lavin, who was a fraud posing as a "basketball head coach." Given that even a scrub like Lavin can routinely take … Read more

Stanford, keep Dawkins forever.) Bruins should root on #68 Marvin Menzies, New Mexico State Coach, as he is a Bruin – even if he never played college or even high school basketball. He earned a degree in Econ at UCLA. UCLA's hoops season came to an end last night against Florida in Memphis (which is … Read more