UCLA hired New Mexico head coach Steve Alford for the same position on Saturday to replace Ben Howland. Alford will receive a seven-year, $18.2 million contract according to UCLA athletic director Dan Guerrero. He will be paid $2.6 million a year and has also received a $200,000 signing bonus, which will help him pay for his upcoming buyout payment to ... Read More »
Butler Bulldogs head coach Brad Stevens is the top target to replace recently fired Ben Howland as the head coach for the UCLA Bruins, according to sources with knowledge informing ESPN of the situation. On Wednesday, Shaka Smart of Virginia Commonwealth ended all speculation of him possibly moving to the Pac-12 by signing a contract extension that extended him through ... Read More »
President Obama didn’t expect much from the Pac-12 conference when he made his choices for the 2013 NCAA Tournament. Instead of seeing all five teams lose in the second round, the Pac-12 came away with five victories in the first weekend of play. Regardless of their position after the first weekend of games, there is plenty to be said about ... Read More »
UCLA head coach Ben Howland is being relieved of his coaching duties, and an official announcement is expected within the next 48 hours, according to Yahoo Sports. The Bruins won the regular season Pac-12 title in 2012-13 and had one of the top recruiting classes in the nation, but fell well short of expectations with a first-round NCAA tournament loss ... Read More »
Five teams from the Pac-12 Conference received good news on Selection Sunday and made it to the 2013 NCAA Tournament. Ready for March Madness? Enter the $100K NCAA Bracket Challenge today with Sports Out West! While Arizona State had a case for potentially making it to this year’s tournament, the top five teams from the conference deservedly made it to ... Read More »
The Oregon Ducks won the Pac-12 Championship, the proving ground for one of the nation’s top conferences, and the committee on Selection Sunday rewarded them by slapping them with a No. 12 seed. Ready for March Madness? Enter the $100K NCAA Bracket Challenge today with Sports Out West! That means that while they will play relatively close to home in ... Read More »
The UCLA Bruins couldn’t muster enough offense or late stops to overcome the efficiency of the Oregon Ducks as they fell in the Pac-12 Championship, 78-69, at MGM Grand Garden Arena on Saturday night. Carlos Emory led the way for the Ducks, who won their first Pac-12 Championship since 2007, with 20 points on 6-of-14 shooting and 2-of-3 from the ... Read More »
Bill Walton is a Southern California basketball legend, and over the course of the 2013 Pac-12 tournament he’s morphed into one on the sidelines as a broadcaster. That’s because the San Diego, Calif. native and former UCLA star has brought a flair that only he can to the airwaves as the Pac-12 Network. On Thursday, he got loose during the ... Read More »
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