Friday, January 1, 2010

UCLA wakes up from its zzzzz and beats ASU with a Z: 72-70

updated post: Jan 1, 2010, 8:49 PM Pacific

The Bruins start 2010 right...Coach Ben Howland breaks out the zone defense again... Nikola Dragovic has his own break out game by dousing the Sun Devils with a career-best 23 points...All starters score double digits: along with Drago, Reeves Nelson (10 pts, 6 rbds, 3 blks); Malcolm Lee (16 pts, 3 assists, 2 rbds); Jerime Anderson (10 pts, 6 assists, 3 turnovers, 3/1 a/to ratio, 6 rbds), and Michael Roll (12 pts, 4 assists, 3 rbds)...UCLA beats a solid 10-3 ASU team at Pauley Pavillion on New Year's eve, 72-70.

P.S. Still waiting for Tyler Honeycutt to bust out (0 pts, 2 rbds, 2 assists, 1 blk in 11 min). (MUH update: looks like Tyler was slowed down by the stomach flu. Get well soon, Tyler).

For the complete boxscore, go to espn.com by clicking here.

Reaction time. Bruins forward Nikola Dragovic, who tied a career high with 23 points, lets out a yell after drawing a foul against Arizona State on Thursday. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times / December 31, 2009)

UCLA basketball: Bruins hang on to defeat Arizona State, 72-70

By David Wharton
The Los Angeles Times
December 31, 2009 | 3:59 pm


First came a torrid shooting display. Then came a second half of rugged inside play and tough-as-nails defense, including plenty of zone.

The combination gave UCLA an upset victory over Arizona State, 72-70, at Pauley Pavilion this afternoon.

The Bruins' victory in this Pacific 10 Conference opener was keyed by forward Nikola Dragovic, who tied a career-best performance with 23 points.

Rihard Kuksiks led the Sun Devils with 15 points.

UCLA opened an 11- point halftime lead by shooting 83%, the best offensive performance in any half by a Bruins team for the decade.

But shots stopped falling so frequently after that, Arizona State clawing back to within a point with 4:23 remaining.

It took some gutsy free-throw shooting, a tough basket in the lane by guard Malcolm Lee and a last-second block by Jerime Anderson for UCLA to hang on for the victory.
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Bruins in a zone to win Pac-10 opener

Hot shooting in the first half and a key block at the end lead to a victory over Sun Devils.

By David Wharton
The Los Angeles Times
January 1, 2010

The words rolled out of Ben Howland's mouth smoothly, no hesitation, not so much as a stutter.

During a timeout in the first half, with UCLA struggling on defense, the coach who swears by man-to-man told his players to go back out on the court in a zone.

"I thought hell froze over," guard Michael Roll said. "I mean, nobody in the world expected Coach Howland to play zone."

It was but one surprise on a Thursday full of surprises, culminating with a 72-70 victory over Arizona State at Pauley Pavilion.

The Bruins won their Pacific 10 Conference opener with an offense that came suddenly to life, pouring in three-pointers.

They won with the shortest starter on the floor, point guard Jerime Anderson, leaping to deflect a last-second shot and save the game.

"I went up and tried to reach as far as I could," Anderson said of the three-point shot by Jerren Shipp.

Block party. UCLA guard Jerime Anderson, right, is congratulated by a teammate after blocking a shot by Arizona State's Jerren Shipp in the final seconds of the game Thursday to preserve a 72-70 victory. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times / December 31, 2009)

The victory reinforced a philosophy that Howland had preached to his players all week. After a disappointing run through the nonconference schedule, he told them to pretend they were starting over.

So rather than dwell on a 6-7 record, the Bruins are focused on being 1-0 in conference. As Howland said: "We started a new season today."

They began again with senior forward Nikola Dragovic emerging from a slump, scoring four three-pointers to stretch Arizona State's pesky defense and open an early lead.

But not all was going well, not with the Sun Devils creating opportunities off screens and running forward Rihards Kuksiks back and forth along the baseline.

So Howland made two adjustments, laying off the defensive pressure his players usually apply to screens and, more noticeably, switching to the zone.

He told them to try it for a possession, later insisting it was a spontaneous decision.

But players said they had been practicing the zone, which made sense to Arizona State Coach Herb Sendek.

"I think they had every intention on playing both defenses against us," Sendek said.

Regardless, the Sun Devils (10-4) appeared startled, and UCLA switched back and forth after that. Defense, along with torrid 83% shooting, accounted for a 42-31 halftime edge.

A rejuvenated Dragovic was especially happy, saying: "Like old times . . . it felt good."

The second half would be a different story, for a couple of reasons.

First, UCLA's out-of-this-world shooting returned to a more reasonable 63% -- still the best anyone has managed against a Sendek-coached team. Second, with Arizona State guard Derek Glasser suffering through a subpar day, the Sun Devils turned to their bench.


Losing his grip. Bruins guard Malcolm Lee steals the ball from Arizona State point guard Derek Glasser in the first half Thursday. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times / December 31, 2009)

Led by Southern California native Demetrius Walker's eight points, they closed a 16-point gap with less than five minutes remaining.

"Those guys stepped up and got us back in the game," Sendek said.

UCLA was giving up too many jumpers at the end of the shot clock, so Howland stuck with his trusted man-to-man. It helped when Kuksiks, who led Arizona State with 15 points, missed a key three-pointer.

"I would like to take credit," Howland said. "But I think some of it was, he didn't make the shots he was making in the first half."

Dragovic was on his way to scoring 23 points -- tied for his career best -- with Malcolm Lee and Roll adding 16 and 12, respectively.

In the final minutes, the Bruins missed a few too many free throws, giving Arizona State a chance to steal the game.

"We knew they were going to make a push," Roll said. "We just had to sustain it."

Specifically, UCLA needed a certain guard to come up with only his fourth block of the season, sealing the victory as time ran out. Anderson said: "I was extremely excited."

The final surprise of a surprising day.
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Not this time. UCLA center Reeves Nelson blocks the shot of Arizona State's Demetrius Walker in the second half Thursday. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times / December 31, 2009)

Dragovic, UCLA hold off Arizona State 72-70
By BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writer
siliconvalleymercurynews.com
Posted: 12/31/2009 03:52:17 PM PST
Updated: 12/31/2009 04:58:20 PM PST


LOS ANGELES—The UCLA Bruins ended the year with a change in defensive strategy that surprised them as much as it did Arizona State.
Coach Ben Howland told his team to play zone.

"I thought hell froze over," senior Michael Roll said.

It worked, though, as UCLA held on after blowing nearly all of a 16-point lead to beat the Sun Devils 72-70 Thursday in the teams' Pac-10 opener.

Howland's defensive reputation has been built on man-to-man, so for him to call for a change in the second half was a downright daring move.

"They were making shots and he said let's go to zone for one play. We were pretty effective at it," Roll said. "It caught them off-guard. We had them confused with it. We practice it. Everybody knows how to play a zone that's been playing basketball their whole life."

Nikola Dragovic tied career highs with six 3-pointers and 23 points for the Bruins (6-7). They hit a season-high 11 3-pointers in winning for the fourth time in five games after a five-game losing streak had left them with the worst non-conference record among league teams.

Dragovic broke out of the slump that plagued him early in the season. He was shooting 31 percent from the floor and just 22 percent from 3-point range in his first 10 games.

"I just kept working and did some extra shooting," he said. "The hard work paid off. It felt like old times."

UCLA shot a season-best 63 percent from the floor.

"We started a new season today," Howland said. "I had no expectation to play zone going into the game, but they were scoring so easily on our man."

Rihards Kuksiks scored 15 points for the Sun Devils (10-4)), who swept the Bruins last season before losing James Harden and Jeff Pendergraph to the NBA draft. Ty Abbott and Derek Glasser added 12 points each. Glasser scored seven points in the final 1:03.

Malcolm Lee added 16 points, Michael Roll 12, and Reeves Nelson and Jerime Anderson 10 each for the Bruins.

UCLA built its largest lead of 16 points early in the second half before getting outscored 28-13. Abbott had eight points and Demetrius Walker seven in the spurt that left the Sun Devils trailing 60-59.

But the Bruins reeled off eight in a row to increase their lead to 68-59.

Glasser's late scoring spurt got the Sun Devils within two with 38 seconds left. Lee extended the margin to four points with two free throws for UCLA, but Arizona State responded with a layup by Jerren Shipp to close to 72-70 with 16 seconds left.

Two missed free throws by Nelson gave the Sun Devils a chance to tie or take the lead, but Shipp's 3-pointer from the right side was blocked by Anderson on the game's final play.

"These guys stepped up and made big shots all the way across the floor," ASU's Jamelle McMillan said. "We were a step late and slow. We had to play from behind most of the game. We weren't even in the building in the first half."

The Bruins nearly did themselves in at the line, where they were 17 of 28 overall and just 9 of 15 over the final 6:12.

The first half was a totally different game.

The Bruins shot 83 percent from the floor and 80 percent from long range in the opening half to take a 42-31 lead—the most points given up by the Sun Devils in the first half in their past 63 games.

"We should've had a better lead at halftime than we did, but that's just me being picky," Howland said. "We did a good job finding the open guy."

Three times the Bruins led by 14 points, the last time when Anderson's jumper kissed off the glass and went in for a 39-28 lead.

"It was a combination of them making every shot and our defense wasn't very good," Sun Devils coach Herb Sendek said.

UCLA trailed by five when the Bruins went on a 17-2 run to take a 26-16 lead. Dragovic hit three 3-pointers and Lee and Nelson had four points each in the spurt.

Roll added two 3-pointers and Lee closed UCLA's scoring with a 3 just before halftime.
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ASU basketball comes up short at UCLA
By Doug Haller
The Arizona Republic
Dec. 31, 2009 06:55 PM

LOS ANGELES - Get used to this. In a season of Pac-10 uncertainty, Arizona State's conference opener at UCLA came down to where many contests no doubt will end: the final buzzer.

The teams that find ways to win such men's basketball battles ultimately should end up competing for NCAA Tournament bids. For one day, despite a furious comeback, ASU fell short.

Jerime Anderson blocked a potential winning 3-pointer from ASU senior Jerren Shipp, securing a 72-70 UCLA win Thursday at Pauley Pavilion. The loss dropped the Sun Devils to 10-4 overall, sending them from Westwood questioning, of all things, their defense.
"We have to put two halves together," ASU junior Jamelle McMillan said. "Obviously, we weren't even in the building in the first half. . . . One or two of those possessions in the first half you take away, it changes the whole game."

Nikola Dragovic matched his career high with 23 points and Malcolm Lee added 16 as the Bruins improved to 6-7. Rihards Kuksiks led ASU with 15 points, but they all came in the first half. Derek Glasser and Ty Abbott each added 12, but scoring was the least of the Sun Devils' worries.

Defense is ASU's trademark, its go-to punch when all else fails. Opponents shot 38 percent against the Sun Devils during non-conference action. And yet Thursday, UCLA opened the first 20 minutes by shooting 83.3 percent, its best effort in any half in at least a decade. Overall, the Bruins shot 62.9 percent, the best effort against ASU this season.

"Usually, teams don't shoot 83 percent in warm-ups or shoot-arounds," ASU coach Herb Sendek said, "(but) obviously our defense wasn't very good."

The Bruins led 42-31 at halftime and scored the first five points of the second half for a 16-point lead.

Sendek had seen enough. He benched starters Glasser, Kuksiks and Eric Boateng. He inserted Demetrius Walker, Trent Lockett and Taylor Rohde. Victor Rudd later replaced Lockett, giving ASU a unit that, according to Walker, never had played together.

The result was a 17-4 run that pulled ASU to within 51-48 with 10:10 remaining. From there, the Sun Devils pulled to within one twice, trying to complete their season's second comeback from a double-digit deficit. UCLA responded with an 8-0 run for a 68-59 lead with 1:53 left, but the Bruins missed five foul shots from there, giving ASU one final chance.

After Reeves Nelson missed two free throws, Glasser rushed down court with 12 seconds left. ASU had no time outs remaining, so Glasser dished to Kuksiks, who passed to Shipp, who appeared to be open behind the arc.

"I didn't see the defender," Shipp said. "I was just focused on making the shot. It felt good leaving my hand."

Suddenly, just before the buzzer, there was Anderson.

"I just stepped up when I had to," he said. "I got a good piece of it. It was all clean."

And in all likelihood, typical of how this Pac-10 race will unfold.


Report

Key player
Nikola Dragovic, struggling with his shot all season, hit his first five 3-pointers, igniting a fragile UCLA team in the first half. Dragovic matched his career high with 23 points.

Key moment
Although the Bruins had mixed in zone, they were in man in the final seconds. Jerime Anderson rotated over and blocked Jerren Shipp's 3-pointer that would've won the game.

Key number
11 3-pointers UCLA made in 17 attempts, which were a season high. The Bruins were shooting 32 percent from such distance entering the game.
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Nothing comes simply for Dragovic
By Ramona Shelburne
ESPN Los Angeles
Updated: December 31, 2009, 11:37 PM ET

If there is one play that encapsulates Nikola Dragovic's career thus far at UCLA, it has to be the ill-advised behind-the-back pass he made to freshman Reeves Nelson with 16 seconds left in the Bruins' 72-70 victory over Arizona State on Thursday afternoon at Pauley Pavilion in the Pac-10 opener for both schools.

With UCLA up by two, Dragovic -- a career 83 percent free throw shooter having his best game of the season (23 points on 7-of-11 shooting) -- whips a pass behind his back to a true freshman who shoots 53 percent from the line.

Nelson, predictably, bricked both free throws, giving the Sun Devils a chance to win on their final possession.

They didn't, but that's beside the point.

Had it not been for that pass, one of what UCLA coach Ben Howland called "some numbskull plays," Saturday's win would have been remembered as the day Dragovic broke out of his season-long shooting slump and led the Bruins to an upset win in their Pac-10 opener.

But nothing much has come simply or easily for Dragovic since he came to UCLA four years ago.

"Coach knows what I do, and sometimes he doesn't like it," Dragovic joked, when asked about that pass to Nelson.

"I wasn't trying to be fancy. It's just that the [defender] gambled and he [Nelson] was open, so I threw it to him expecting he'd dunk it, not get fouled."

Said Howland:

"Nik had a good game, but I always have to find something to improve on."

It's been this way for most of Dragovic's career at UCLA. Two steps forward, then one or two steps back.

A good game undercut by a silly pass. A great shooter unable to get on the court because he did not play defense. A nice kid who runs afoul of the law by trying to help defend a friend at a bar fight.

It was enough to make friends and family back home wonder whether the 6-foot-9 sharpshooter would've been better off staying in Serbia and playing professionally.

For a time, Dragovic wondered, too.

But despite the strange drama that has shadowed his time in Westwood, he says he has no regrets.

"People ask me when I go back home if I would do it again, and I would definitely do it again," he said.

"The past two years I haven't really thought about [leaving]. My sophomore year I thought about it a couple of times because I couldn't really take it.

"But I stayed, I believed in myself and I believed in Coach. I believed that I was doing the right thing."

What convinced him of that is actually kind of ironic.

When he was suspended last year after an incident with a former girlfriend -- no charges were filed, although the city attorney's office reserved the right to revisit the case for as long as a year -- it was Howland who stood behind him.

That meant a lot to Dragovic, a kid who said goodbye to his family and country nine time zones away to play for the Bruins.

This fall, when Dragovic was arrested on an assault charge after an incident at a concert in Hollywood, Howland again supported him.

He suspended him for two games while the school conducted an initial investigation, but reinstated him soon afterward, allowing him to play his senior year while his legal matters played out in court.

On the court, once Dragovic got over his initial frustration with Howland and the low-scoring, defensive-minded system the coach employs, he began to realize that he might just need the tough love more than an extra round of shooting practice.

"When I came here, I had a lot of things to learn," he said. "It was really different and difficult because I never really played defense before. Back home, I would just score 40 and the guy I was guarding scored 30, we would win and I was fine, nobody would ask me anything.

"But obviously it was a part of my game that I had to improve, so I'm really glad I came here."

The question now is: Can he end career on a high note, with nothing discordant to undercut his success?

The Bruins' season might just depend on that answer.

UCLA (6-7, 1-0) looked like a different team with Dragovic shooting and playing as well as he did Thursday.

His electric first-half shooting -- he hit five 3-pointers and finished the half with 16 points -- helped propel UCLA to its best shooting half in at least a decade (15-for-18) and an 11-point halftime lead.

"It just adds another threat," sophomore guard Malcolm Lee said of Dragovic's impact. "It makes the game easier for everybody else."

Which should continue for as long as Dragovic makes things easier on himself, too.
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UCLA switches to zone, wins Pac-10 opener
By AL BALDERAS
THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
January 01, 2010 9:31 AM

LOS ANGELES - The UCLA basketball team added a couple of late wrinkles to its game plan on Thursday and they paid off in the form of a 72-70 victory over Arizona State at Pauley Pavilion.

UCLA coach Ben Howland opted to experiment with a seldom-used zone defense, catching his players and the Sun Devils off guard.

The switch, along with 15-for-18 (83.3 percent) shooting in the first half, enabled the Bruins to build a 16-point lead that had dwindled to one point on a couple of occasions.

Jerime Anderson blocked a 3-point shot by Jerren Shipp as time expired to preserve the victory but only after the Bruins failed in their attempt to put the game away at the free throw line. They hit just 4 of 8 foul shots during the final minute.

Reeves Nelson missed two free throws with 16.1 seconds left, leaving the Bruins' two-point lead vulnerable. The Sun Devils raced down the court but were unable to get the ball to Derek Glasser or Rihards Kuksiks, who accounted for five of Arizona State's nine 3-pointers in the game. Instead the ball went to Shipp.

"I just saw Glasser come off the screen and Nik (Dragovic) and Malcolm (Lee) went with him," Anderson said of his last-second block. "I just knew we were going to have to end up scattering and rotating. I went up and tried to reach as far as I could. Luckily I got the block."

The Sun Devils might have been surprised by Anderson's block since it was only his fourth this season, but the real surprise came in the first half.

Arizona State was having little trouble against UCLA's man-to-man defense and used long-range jump shots as well as layups to take an early lead. Dragovic's five 3-point baskets in the first half kept the Bruins within reach. Dragovic finished with 23 points, tying his career best.

It was midway through the first half that Howland decided to forego the man defense.

"They were scoring so easy on our man (defense), I wanted to make adjustments to see what would happen," Howland said. "I had no expectation to play zone going into the game."

The adjustment worked. Arizona State (10-4, 0-1) seemed to be as surprised about the zone defense as the UCLA players but the Bruins made it work.

Michael Roll was asked what his initial thought was when he heard Howland's decision to play zone.

"That hell froze over," he replied.

"They were kind of making some shots and at the time he said let's just go to zone for one play," Roll continued. "We were pretty effective with it, and then we tried it again and were effective with it. Then we just stuck with it."

The Bruins (6-7, 1-0) took a 42-31 lead at halftime, and this was against an Arizona State team that was holding teams to 54.5 points per game this season. The most recent time the Sun Devils allowed that many points in a half was when Cal scored 46 in the second half of a game on Feb. 16, 2008.

UCLA opened up a 16-point lead when Roll hit a 3-pointer with 18:13 left in the second half, but the Sun Devils came charging back.

Two free throws by Demetrius Walker cut the Bruins' lead to one point (54-53) with 8:21 remaining.

Dragovic pushed the lead back to six points with rebound and basket off a miss by Reeves Nelson, and his sixth 3-pointer of the game.

Eric Boateng got the Sun Devils back within one point with 4:28 on the clock but they couldn't get any closer.

Baskets by Lee and Nelson, and free throws by Dragovic and Anderson gave the Bruins a 68-59 lead with 1:53 on the clock.

By shooting 62.9 percent from the field, UCLA became the second team to eclipse the 60 percent mark against an Arizona State team since Herb Sendek became the Sun Devils' coach in 2006.

Florida shot 60.5 percent against Arizona State in an NIT game on March 25, 2008.
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UCLA basketball appears reborn after winning Pac-10 opener


UCLA BASKETBALL: Dragovic, zone defense help Howland's team defeat Arizona State

By Jon Gold, Staff Writer
The Los Angeles Daily News
Updated: 12/31/2009 11:07:07 PM PST


UCLA viewed the opening of the Pac-10 schedule as a second chance, a new beginning, a rebirth of sorts.

Well bust out the baby shower presents, these young Bruins have arrived.

After a stunning shooting performance in the first half, UCLA held on to defeat visiting Arizona State 72-70 at Pauley Pavilion on Thursday afternoon in the Pac-10 opener.

Riding the hot hand of senior forward Nikola Dragovic, who found a comfort zone in the corner and shot 5 for 5 from the 3-point line in the first half for 16 points, UCLA shot 83.3 percent from the field and made 8 of 10 3-pointers.

With guards Jerime Anderson, Michael Roll and Malcolm Lee penetrating the lane and kicking out to the perimeter, the Bruins got uncontested looks.

Even better, they made them.

"Our attack of the zone was good with Mike, Jerime and Malcolm," UCLA coach Ben Howland said. "We should be a good team against the zone. I expect us to be a good shooting team, but 15 for 18 in a half? I didn't expect that."

And Arizona State didn't expect UCLA's zone defense.

Shocking just about everyone in the gym - including himself - Howland employed a 2-3 zone defense for much of the first half, after the Sun Devils opened with a 14-9 lead with sound perimeter ball movement.

The Bruins have dabbled in the zone this season for the first time since Howland's first year, though not to the extent that Arizona State saw Thursday.

"I thought hell froze over," said Roll, who had 12 points. "They were just making some shots, and in the timeout he said, `Let's just go to zone for one play.' We were effective with it and we tried it again.

"They were struggling with it - nobody in the world expected coach Howland to play zone. It was all kind of us players out there all talking - we had them a little confused by it."

In the second half, the Sun Devils cut into the lead by flashing the high post, with UCLA's guards having trouble bouncing back out to the perimeter. After building a 13-point lead with just less than 15 minutes to play, the Bruins watched Arizona State slowly chip away, though the Sun Devils never regained the lead.

"Their coach really adjusted well - like in any zone, the weak parts are in the middle," said Lee, who added 16 points. "They started exploring it, and started getting it in the middle and having everybody collapse. I definitely credit their zone in the second half - they really picked up their energy; you could tell they had an urgency because they were down.

"But that's all they did - adjust to us - and every good coach will do that."

In a way, Lee was talking about his own coach, as well.

Howland said he had no plans to employ the zone defense against Arizona State, but the Sun Devils seemingly picked off the Bruins one by one at the top of the key and worked the ball around for open looks.

Howland might not have planned to play such a foreign defense; he just needed to.

"I had no expectation to play zone going into the game," Howland said. "They were scoring so easy on our man that I wanted to make an adjustment. It really did stun them. I mean, UCLA playing zone? We did a good job in it matching up."

As the Sun Devils mounted their comeback, the Bruins moved back to man-to-man defense and the game slowed down.

Arizona State tried to cut UCLA off by sending the Bruins to the foul line - their biggest weakness, as the team shot just 60.7 percent on free throws - but the early lead proved insurmountable.

"It was a combination of them making every shot - usually teams don't even shoot 83 percent in warm-ups or shootarounds - and our defense wasn't very good," Arizona State coach Herb Sendek said.

"Dragovic hits that corner 3 that he's fouled on, and that's a tough shot. Then there were some other shots they took where we missed coverages and didn't do the things we were supposed to do."
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UCLA wins, apocalypse upon us?
By Diamond Leung
espn.com
December, 31, 2009 7:35PM ET

UCLA survived Arizona State with a 72-70 win at Pauley Pavilion in Thursday's first Pac-10 game of the season, and it featured some odd occurrences.

Ben Howland utilized a 2-3 zone defense extensively for the first time this season, and it seemed to key the Bruins' first-half run, with the Sun Devils eventually trailing by as many as 16 points. This from the same Howland who despises the zone so much that as a high school player, he demanded his coach stop using it. When Howland hinted that he was going to use zone, it was seen as a sign of his team's lack of athleticism. Now it's a weapon?

UCLA forward Nikola Dragovic had been shooting so poorly that even the lawyer handling his felony assault case last week quipped, "He has to start making some 3-point shots." He was making less than 22 percent of those coming into the game and responded in a big way, going 5-for-5 from beyond the arc in the first half on his way to tying a career-high with 23 points. As a team, UCLA shot 83.3 percent in the first half.

There was a bizarre game-ending sequence at both ends of the floor with UCLA leading by two. Dragovic whipped a behind-the-back pass to Reeves Nelson, and as he was about to close it out with a dunk, Arizona State's Jerren Shipp came up with the foul with 16.1 seconds left. Reeves missed both free throws and Shipp got a shot at a potential game-winning 3-pointer at the horn. But much-maligned Bruins guard Jerime Anderson partially blocked the shot to seal the win.

It's going to be 2010, not 2012, right? Just wanted to make sure.

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