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UCLA student-athletes Myles Johnson (men’s basketball) and Briana Perez (softball) have been named as 2021-22 Pac-12 Tom Hansen Conference Medal recipients, as announced Wednesday by the Pac-12 Conference office. The Pac-12 annually awards conference medals to each of its member institution’s outstanding male and female student-athlete based on a combination of performance and achievement in scholarship, athletics and leadership. Conference medal winners have been named every year since the 196...
On paper, the UCLA Bruins were a strong favorite to return to the Final Four 2022 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament. With all five starters returning from the 2020-2021 team that made it to the Final Four, the 2021-2022 squad seemed to be poised to make a run at a national championship. The Bruins entered the season as the No. 2 ranked team in the nation in the Associated Press Poll. Unfortunately for Bruin fans, the 2021-2022 squad was unable to replicate their NCAA Tournament performance from l...
After a long season of injuries and Covid cancellations, with some impressive performances and some less than impressive performances, the 2021-2022 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team is down to one regular season basketball game. It does not get much better than the USC Trojans playing the Bruins at Pauley Pavilion in Westwood to end the regular season on Saturday at 7 p.m. The Bruins are 22-6 for the season and tied for second place in the Pac-12 with the Trojans with a conference record of...
The UCLA men’s basketball team will take on North Carolina, and Ohio State will face Kentucky in the eighth annual CBS Sports Classic on Saturday, Dec. 18. The location for this event has not been finalized. UCLA’s showdown against the Tar Heels will begin at 12 p.m. (PT), nationally televised on CBS and streamed on Paramount+ Premium. The matchup between Ohio State and Kentucky will be the second game of that day’s doubleheader. This set of matchups – UCLA versus North Carolina and Ohio State against Kentucky – was last featured in the 2019...
In the past thirty days, the Pac-12 Conference has had a time to remember. The much-maligned conference, often ridiculed by their friends in the east, have put together a memorable run of success in basketball and the other Olympic sports. As former UCLA basketball great Bill Walton often states, the Pac-12 is the "Conference of Champions" and lately that has never been truer. The highlight of the past month was the performance of the Pac-12 schools in the NCAA basketball tournament, both the...
Sophomore guard Tyger Campbell has been named a first-team NABC All-District selection, as announced by the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) on Tuesday morning. Campbell, a 5-foot-11 point guard from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has been listed on the NABC’s District 19 first team, along with Oscar da Silva (Stanford), Evan Mobley (USC), Chris Duarte (Oregon) and McKinley Wright IV (Colorado). The first student-athletes honored as second-team selections are Timmy Allen (Utah), Remy Martin (Arizona State), Isaac Bonton (Washington S...
UCLA men's basketball signee Peyton Watson has been selected as a McDonald's All-America selection, as announced on Tuesday. In all, 48 high school seniors – comprising the top 24 boys and top 24 girls in the nation – have been selected by a committee of basketball analysts. These top high school players will not face off in any McDonald's All-American Game this year (due to COVID-19). However, a virtual celebration is being planned to give these high school student-athletes the recognition they deserve. Watson, a 6-foot-7 guard/forward from Lo...
Charisma Osborne has earned Pac-12 Player of the Week honors, the Conference office announced Monday. It's the second-career weekly honor for Osborne and the 65th all-time for UCLA Women's Basketball. Osborne put up 24 points in UCLA's victory over then-No. 5 Stanford on Friday, Jan. 22. Her free throws late in the fourth quarter proved to be the game-winning points in the contest, as she broke the 66-66 deadlock with 1:23 to play. The sophomore knocked down three three-pointers en route to her...
Michaela Onyenwere has earned Pac-12 Player of the Week honors, the Conference office announced Monday. It's the third-career weekly honor for Onyenwere and the 63rd all-time for UCLA Women's Basketball. Onyenwere becomes the second Bruin to earn Pac-12 weekly honors this season, as sophomore guard Charisma Osborne won the first Player of the Week honor of the 2020-21 season on Nov. 30. The Bruins are now the only team in the Conference with multiple weekly honorees this season. Onyenwere...
Now that the regular season is over the UCLA and USC men's basketball team can concentrate on Pac-12 Tournament that began last Wednesday in Las Vegas. If they win their games on Thursday they will advance to play in the semifinals on Friday (today). If both teams win on Friday it will be a UCLA against USC championship game on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. Both teams need to win at least one or two more games to be selected to play in the NCAA Tournament. The Trojans are 22-9 and the Bruins are 19-12....
March madness is supposed to start when teams reach the NCAA Tournament in the third week of March. For the USC and UCLA men's basketball teams it starts on Saturday when the two teams meet in the final game of the regular season. USC is 21-9 overall and UCLA is 19-11 The tipoff is set for 12:15 p.m. and both teams need a win to stay in contention for a bye next week in the Pac-12 Tournament at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The first day of the tournament, Wednesday, the top four teams in the...
The 9-2 USC men's basketball team will play the 8-2 Louisiana State University (LSU) Tigers on Saturday at the Staples Center at 6 p.m. Both teams come into the game with winning streaks and something to prove to the rest of the nation. USC beat Long Beach State last Sunday 87-76 at the Galen Center on the USC campus. The Trojans were led by freshman forward Onyeka Okongwu who scored 28 points, grabbed 12 rebounds and he also had three steals in 30 minutes of play. Senior guard Jonah Mathews...
