UCLA basketball team tries it again in Texas ... 44 years laterBy Chris Foster
Dee LA Times
7:56 AM PST, December 5, 2012
A UCLA basketball team with high expectations travels to Houston
to play a Texas team in a football stadium … stop me if you've heard this one
already.
History is not on UCLA’s side when the Bruins play Texas in
Reliant Stadium on Saturday.
It’s been 44 years since UCLA last tried this. Lew Alcindor came
back with his first collegiate loss. Houston, led by Elvin Hayes, upset the No. 1-ranked
Bruins in the Astrodome.
The Longhorns are nowhere near as formidable as the 1968 Houston
Cougars. After all, they lost to USC and Chaminade -- toss-up which one hurts
more.
Of course, UCLA is hardly the team it was in 1968 either (see Cal
Poly San Luis Obispo game tape).
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