On Saturday, the UCLA Bruins selected Steve Alford to replace former head coach Ben Howland. Alford was the head coach of the New Mexico Lobos. The Lobos were a No.3 seed in this year’s NCAA tournament, but were upset in their first game. The selection of Alford as head coach only came after VCU head coach Shaka Smart and Butler ... Read More »
Arizona State will likely be the only team sweating on Selection Sunday when the 68 teams in the field for the 2013 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament are announced. Ready for March Madness? Enter the $100K NCAA Bracket Challenge today with Sports Out West! The Sun Devils are part of a highly-competetive conference that according to ESPN.com’s Eamonn Brennan, should see ... Read More »
UCLA freshman guard Jordan Adams is done for the rest of the season after breaking the fifth metatarsal in his right foot on Friday, as first reported by Yahoo! Sports’ Jeff Eisenberg on Twitter. On the final play of the Bruins’ 66-64 victory over Arizona, Adams tried to defend the potential game-tying shot by Solomon Hill. After the play, he ... Read More »
The UCLA Bruins advanced to the final four of the 2013 Pac-12 Conference Tournament behind a furious second half comeback that included the simple formula of hot shooting and stifling defense against Arizona State on Thursday night at MGM Grand Garden Arena. The Bruins shot just 34.4 percent from the field over the first 20 minutes of the game, but turned ... Read More »
The first day of the 2013 Pac-12 basketball tournament didn’t fail to disappoint in terms of drama, but the West Coast didn’t fare too well as a whole as the USC Trojans and Stanford Cardinal both fell in first-round action on Wednesday night. For Stanford, it was a heartbreaking loss to Arizona State in overtime, 89-88, that will likely dash ... Read More »
UCLA’s Shabazz Muhammad and Larry Drew II have earned first-team All-Pac-12 Conference honors, as announced by the Pac-12 conference office on Monday. Other awards for UCLA include Muhammad earning Pac-12 Co-Freshman of the Year honors and freshman Kyle Anderson being named to the All-Pac-12 second team. Muhammad and Anderson also made up two-fifths of the Pac-12 All-Freshmen Team. Muhammad (6-foot-6, ... Read More »
UCLA Bruins head coach Ben Howland confirmed on Saturday night that freshman star swingman Shabazz Muhammad played his last game at Pauley Pavilion in a 74-69 win against No. 11 Arizona. Immediately after the big win, Howland didn’t have any doubt he had coached his freshman for the last time at home. “That was his last game in Pauley, no doubt about ... Read More »
With the California Golden Bears men’s basketball team down 44-32 to the USC Trojans with 16:31 remaining in the second half, Cal head coach Mike Montgomery called a timeout, frustrated by his team’s performance. As a way to motivate his top scorer, Montgomery shoved star player Allen Crabbe during the time stoppage, leading to even more frustration by the guard. ... Read More »
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