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Saturday, December 19, 2015
Prince Ali brings his Bronx game to UCLA
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Wednesday, December 16, 2015
UCLA Downs Louisiana-Lafayette, 89-80
DEC 15, 2015 | MEN'S BASKETBALL
By: UCLA Athletics
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LOS ANGELES - Bryce Alford scored a season-high 27 points to lead the No. 22 UCLA basketball team past Louisiana-Lafayette, 89-80, in Pauley Pavilion on Tuesday night.
The Bruins (8-3) registered their fifth consecutive win just three days after taking down No. 20 Gonzaga on the road, 71-66. Isaac Hamilton scored 19 points and grabbed seven rebounds, while Tony Parker finished with 19 points and a team-leading nine rebounds.
“I thought we started really well,” UCLA head coach Steve Alford said. “I think what happened was that we haven’t been up by 20 points in a while, and we got up by 19 or 20 and we relaxed.”
Louisiana-Lafayette (3-5) entered Tuesday night’s non-conference affair ranking third, nationally, in points per game (90.0). The Ragin’ Cajuns were led by Shawn Long’s 26 points and 16 rebounds.
The Bruins opened the game with an 8-0 scoring run, playing without the services of sophomore centerThomas Welsh (stomach virus) and freshman guard Prince Ali (bone bruise, left knee). UCLA pushed its early advantage to as many as 19 points with 6:57 to play before halftime and entered the locker room at the break with a 47-35 cushion.
Bryce Alford scored 17 points in the first half, connecting on 7 of 9 shots and 3 of 4 attempts from 3-point range. He finished with 27 points, making 10 of 15 field goals, and also registered a team-leading seven assists.
Louisiana-Lafayette (3-5) reduced UCLA’s advantage to as few as four points midway through the second half. After a layup by Parker gave the Bruins a 63-56 cushion, Hayward Register nailed a 3-pointer to reduce the margin to 63-59 at the 10:13 mark. UCLA immediately responded with an 11-2 scoring run to push its lead back to 13 points with 7:18 remaining.
Leading 79-73, UCLA received a 3-pointer from Alford to extend its cushion to 82-73 with just 1:55 to play in regulation.
“We got tested, but without Thomas [Welsh] and Prince [Ali], two guys who have been in our rotation, we had some guys step up,” Coach Alford said. “I thought Bryce, Isaac and Tony were really good. Bryce made some huge plays for us and Isaac, before he got in foul trouble, was doing a lot of good things.”
The Bruins will return to action against No. 11 North Carolina (7-2) in the CBS Sports Classic on Saturday, Dec. 19. The game will be played at the Barclays Center (Brooklyn, N.Y.). Game time is 10 a.m. (PT). UCLA’s contest will be nationally televised by CBS.
Sunday, December 13, 2015
Sweet (16) Revenge!!! UCLA Wins at No. 20 Gonzaga, 71-66
DEC 12, 2015 | MEN'S BASKETBALL
By: UCLA Athletics
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Spokane, Wash. - UCLA defeated its second Top 20 opponent in nine days, downing No. 20 Gonzaga, 71-66, on Saturday night at the McCarthey Athletic Center.
Isaac Hamilton led four Bruins in double-figure scoring with 20 points. Tony Parker shot 8-of-9 from the field and scored 16 points, including 12 in the second half. Bryce Alford scored 13 points, breaking the 1,000 point barrier for his career, and Jonah Bolden recorded a double-double with 10 points and 11 rebounds off the bench.
UCLA (7-3) jumped out to a 10-3 lead thanks to two buckets by Thomas Welsh and a pair of three-pointers by Hamilton. The Bruins extended their lead to as many as eight points, 13-5, after a three-pointer by Alford before Kyle Wiltjer's three-point shooting brought Gonzaga (6-3) to within three, 17-14. After just five minutes of play, the two teams combined to hit 12 of 16 shots, including 7-of-10 from beyond the arc.
Gonzaga took a 32-30 halftime lead after outscoring UCLA, 8-2, over the final four minutes of the half, and extended its lead to five points, 37-32, after an and-one from Domatas Sabonis.
Parker took over from there, scoring six of UCLA's eight points in an 8-2 Bruin run that saw UCLA regain the lead, 40-39.
After the lead see-sawed back and forth a few more times, UCLA went on another run midway through the second half to take the lead for good. Down 48-47, the Bruins scored nine-straight points, starting with another three-pointer by Hamilton and ending with a jumper by Alford that gave UCLA a 56-48 lead with 7:44 to play.
An Eric McClellan layup got Gonzaga to within one, 65-64, with 1:29 left to play, but Welsh put in a second-chance basket with 1:09 remaining, and Hamilton followed with a steal and layup to push UCLA's lead back up to five with 53 seconds left. Free throws by Josh Perkins made it a one-possession game, and Gonzaga got the ball back with 13 seconds to play and down three after an Alford three-pointer came off his hand a fraction too late to beat the shot clock. However, Kyle Dranginis' three-point attempt was no good, and Bolden grabbed the rebound and was fouled. Bolden's made free throws sealed the win for the Bruins with two seconds left.
The win was UCLA's second against a ranked team in the last nine days. The Bruins defeated No. 1 Kentucky in Pauley Pavilion on Dec. 3, 87-77.
UCLA will next host Louisiana-Lafayette in Pauley Pavilion on Tuesday, Dec. 15 at 6pm.
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UCLA Downs Long Beach State, 83-76
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Isaac Hamilton finished with 21 points in UCLA's 83-76 victory (photo by Scott Chandler)
DEC 06, 2015 | MEN'S BASKETBALL
By: UCLA Athletics
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LOS ANGELES - Bryce Alford scored a season-high 24 points to help the UCLA basketball team defeat Long Beach State, 83-76, in a non-conference game in Pauley Pavilion on Sunday night.
Isaac Hamilton registered a season-best 21 points and registered four rebounds, four assists and four steals.
Tony Parker (16 points, 10 rebounds) and Thomas Welsh (15 points, 10 rebounds) each recorded double-doubles, as UCLA overcame a nine-point deficit in the first half just three days after taking down No. 1-ranked Kentucky in Pauley Pavilion.
“This was going to be a tough game, and we knew it,” UCLA head coach Steve Alford said. “That team [Long Beach State] has played a lot of good teams already. They are used to playing a difficult schedule. We knew it would be hard coming off the Kentucky win. But we can’t be a team of excuses. We need to be one of growth, and we did grow.”
Long Beach State (5-5), playing its third game in the last four days, claimed a narrow 38-37 lead at halftime and led by as many as four points early in the second half. With the 49ers ahead, 32-23, and 6:24 to play before intermission, UCLA chipped away with seven consecutive points scored by Alford.
After Parker stole the ball and hit a jumper with 2:30 remaining, Alford connected on a contested 3-pointer before falling to the ground as the game evened, 35-35.
The visiting 49ers received a team-leading 24 points from Nick Faust, who made 9 of 19 shots and nailed 5 of 11 three-point field goal attempts.
UCLA never trailed past the 18:16 mark in the second half, pushing its margin to as many as 12 points – 60-48 – with 13:20 to play. Long Beach State reduced the gap to three points – 68-65 – after an old-fashioned 3-point play by Roschon Prince with seven minutes remaining.
The 49ers got to within one point twice in the game’s final six minutes but could never take the lead. After Long Beach State’s Justin Bibbins made a pair of free throws to cut the Bruins’ lead to 72-71, Parker made a layup with 4:03 to play. Welsh followed with a jump shot, making the score 76-71 with 3:32 left in the second half.
UCLA helped put the game out of reach in the final minute. Hamilton was fouled while converting a layup under the glass and made the ensuing free throw, pushing the Bruins’ advantage to 81-76 with 50 seconds remaining.
The Bruins will return to action at No. 13 Gonzaga on Saturday, Dec. 12. Game time is slated for 7 p.m. (PT). UCLA’s game at Gonzaga will be nationally televised by ESPN2.
UCLA Defeats No. 1 Kentucky, 87-77
DEC 03, 2015 | MEN'S BASKETBALL
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LOS ANGELES - UCLA shot 53 percent from the field and held top-ranked Kentucky to a 38 percent shooting performance in an 87-77 victory in front of 12,202 fans in Pauley Pavilion.
Thomas Welsh led five UCLA players in double figures with game-highs of 21 points and 11 rebounds. Also scoring in double figures were Bryce Alford and Isaac Hamilton with 15 each, Tony Parker with 11, and Aaron Holiday with 10. Isaiah Briscoe led Kentucky with a career-high 20 points.
"I’m really proud of our guys," said UCLA head coach Steve Alford. "Obviously, we have a few freshmen who weren’t a part of last year’s game, but we have a lot of veterans here who were. When you go through what we had to go through last year playing Kentucky, it would have been real easy to show up and play tentative. We led this game for a lot of the 40 minutes and did it against this Kentucky team. For our guys to fight the way we fought against the number one team in the country was great."
It was a game pitting the two most storied programs in NCAA men’s basketball history – the 11-time NCAA champion Bruins and the eight-time NCAA champion Wildcats in Kentucky’s first-ever appearance at Pauley Pavilion. The gold-clad Bruin fans hardly rolled out the red carpet, providing a raucous home crowd advantage for the Bruins, who took the lead at 4-2 and never looked back.
The Bruins never trailed after the 18:10 mark in the first half. Tony Parker's layup broke a 2-2 tie and UCLA was ahead of Kentucky for the remaining 38 minutes and 10 seconds.
The closest Kentucky got was 22-21 with 7:59 to play in the first half, but the Bruins went on a 12-2 run to extend the lead to 34-23 with 3:25 remaining and went into the locker room at halftime up 37-29.
UCLA kept the pressure going in the second half and held a double-digit lead from the 17 minute mark until the one minute mark, peaking with a monster dunk by Prince Ali and free throw that gave UCLA a 15-point lead with 9:55 to play.
A three-pointer by Jamal Murray with 1:09 to play cut the Bruins’ lead to nine points, but three free throws by Hamilton and four missed three pointers by the Wildcats secured the win for UCLA, who improved to 5-3. Kentucky recorded its first loss of the year and dropped to 7-1.
The victory was the Bruins’ first over a No. 1-ranked team since a 96-89 overtime win over Arizona at the Staples Center on Mar. 13, 2003.
"I couldn’t be more happy and proud of this group of young men," Steve Alford said. "I think we’re going to build a lot of confidence and trust out of this; it was a great night for us."
UCLA Cruises Past CSUN, 77-45
NOV 29, 2015 | MEN'S BASKETBALL
By: UCLA Athletics
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LOS ANGELES - Tony Parker logged his fifth double-double in seven games to lead the UCLA basketball team past CSUN, 77-45, in Pauley Pavilion on Sunday evening.
Parker finished with 14 points and 11 rebounds in 27 minutes, connecting on 6 of 11 shots.
Isaac Hamilton tied with Parker for the team lead with 14 points, while Aaron Holiday scored 13 points and connected on all three of his 3-point attempts.
UCLA (4-3) shot 43 percent from the field, totaling 21 assists and just seven turnovers against the visiting Matadors (2-5). The Bruins raced to a 14-0 lead in the game’s first six minutes before CSUN got on the board with a layup at the 13:35 mark in the first half.
The Bruins led by as many as 17 points in the first half and entered the locker room at the break with a 39-22 advantage.
“When you’re 3-3, you have to get a win,” UCLA head coach Steve Alford said. “But we needed to get a win where we played well. This was not a poorly-played game. We out-rebounded them by six and, in a 30-point game, we only turned the ball over seven times. The only thing I don’t think we did a tremendous job of was getting to the free throw line.”
For the Bruins, Sunday night’s contest against CSUN capped a four-game week. UCLA went 1-2 playing on consecutive days in the Maui Jim Maui Invitational (Nov. 23-25) before returning to Los Angeles on Friday evening.
Bryce Alford finished with a season-high 10 assists, totaling eight points, six rebounds and one steal in a team-leading 31 minutes.
No player from CSUN scored in double figures, as Micheal Warren, Jason Richardson and Landon Drew each finished with nine points. That marked UCLA’s first game since a win over UC Davis on Dec. 17, 2011, at the Honda Center, in which the Bruins did not allow any opposing player to score at least 10 points.
UCLA opened the second half by outscoring CSUN, 7-2, taking a 46-24 lead in the first 2:40 and never saw its advantage diminish to fewer than 20 points after the 15-minute park.
The Bruins will return to action against No. 1-ranked Kentucky on Thursday, Dec. 3. Game time is 6 p.m. (PT). This will mark the first time in which UCLA has hosted the nation’s top-ranked team since Jan. 9, 2014, when the Bruins dropped a 79-75 decision to No. 1-ranked Arizona.
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