Bruins Nation 8 hours ago
UCLA Gymnastics Travels to Stanford to Open Pac-12 Schedule
Margzetta Frazier | BruinsNation.com The Bruins will take on the Cardinal in a rare Monday night meet. After scoring a season-high 197.425 at a tri-meet against BYU and Utah State last weekend, the UCLA Bruins will take on Stanford tonight for the second time this season. Last Time Out UCLA began last weekend’s tri-meet on the beam. For this outing, head coach Chris Waller tinkered with the lineup, moving senior Kyla Ross to third in the order instead of having her ties up the event at the anchor spot. All six Bruin scores were at least 9.800 or higher, with Grace Glenn leading off...
Bruins Nation 18 hours ago
UCLA Basketball News Roundup: A Manual on the Wrong Ways to Break the Press
Jalen Hill shares a number with Kobe Bryant and had a good game. Unfortunately he was almost alone in that respect. | Soobum Im-USA TODAY Sports UCLA’s 96-75 loss inspired some writers and it was not good for the Bruins. While the first half on Sunday was ugly for UCLA Bruins fans, it provided the writers with license to act like creative writers as opposed to news reporters. The AP led their story with: UCLA was in a giving mood and Oregon was only too happy to be on the receiving end. The 12th-ranked Ducks took advantage of a season-worst 23 turnovers by the Bruins to score 34...
Bruins Nation Jan 26, 2020
Game Thread, Preview and How to Watch: UCLA Bruins at Oregon Ducks
We’ll need some great defense from Jalen Hill tonight to beat Oregon’s excellent offense. | Gary A. Vasquez-USA TODAY Sports The Bruin defense has been elite the last two games. Can they keep it up? This afternoon, the UCLA Bruins will wrap up this weekend’s road trip when they face the Oregon Ducks in Eugene at 2 pm PT on Fox. UCLA is a last-second three away from being 3-0 on the road in conference. They have done this through timely shooting and very good to great team defense. They have overcome road crowds and road refs. But, now is the toughest part. Ben Bolch writes in the...
Bruins Nation Jan 25, 2020
UCLA Basketball: Oregon State Game was a Cool Cronin Win
Photo by Jayne Kamin-Oncea/ Mick Cronin deserves the credit for Thursday’s road win over Oregon State. Thursday night was the best win of the season for UCLA Bruins head coach Coach Cronin. Yes, winning at Washington is tougher but the way they won last night was all on Coach Cronin. It is rare that I disagree with Dimitri but I thought the 62-58 win at Gill Coliseum over the Oregon State Beavers was a thing of beauty. UCLA overcame the SPTR. For any new readers, “SPTR” is an abbreviation used on Bruins Nation that describes the quality of the Pac-12 refs. Don’t get me wrong, I...
Ben Bolch / Los Angeles Times Jan 25, 2020 Mick Cronin must dig deep into his repertoire of tricks to push UCLA past Oregon
UCLA coach Mick Cronin coaches different players differently, and the Bruins will need to take that guidance to heart to have any chance of beating Oregon.
Los Angeles Times Jan 25, 2020
Michaela Onyenwere helps UCLA top Washington in overtime
Michaela Onyenwere, returning from a sprained ankle that kept her out of a loss to USC, had a career-high 31 points in the Bruins' 85-80 defeat of the Huskies.
Ben Bolch / Los Angeles Times Jan 24, 2020 Jordan Wilson's departure leaves UCLA dangerously thin at tight end
Jordan Wilson becomes the third tight end to leave UCLA early since the end of the last season.
Bruins Nation Jan 24, 2020
UCLA Grits Out Road Win over Oregon State 62-58
No new pictures have uploaded yet, so enjoy this one from last year I guess. | Richard Mackson-USA TODAY Sports It wasn’t pretty, but the Bruins are leaving Corvallis with a win. Let me start out by saying: this was not a fun game to watch. Yet that’s not necessarily a bad thing. If anything, turning games into unwatchable affairs is currently an excellent strategy for coach Mick Cronin and the UCLA Bruins, and that turned out to be the case yet again as the Bruins ground the game down to a crawl and came away with a 62-58 victory over the Oregon State Beavers. Really, UCLA did so...
Bruins Nation Jan 23, 2020
Game Thread, Preview and How to Watch: UCLA at Oregon State
In order for the Bruins to win tonight’s game against Oregon State, they will need to neutralize Oregon State’s Tres Tinkle. | Richard Mackson-USA TODAY Sports If UCLA wants to win tonight, the Bruins will need to stop Oregon State’s leader Tres Tinkle. Tonight, the UCLA Bruins will be in Corvallis, Oregon to take on the Oregon State Beavers at 8 pm PT. The Beavers come into tonight’s game with a 12-6 record, but that might be deceiving as Oregon State has been one of the worst teams in the Pac-12 to this point. So far, the Beavers are just 2-4 in Pac-12 play which puts them...
Bruins Nation Jan 23, 2020
UCLA Basketball: Four-Star Guard Will McClendon Commits to the Bruins
@WMcClendon Plus, coverage of this week’s basketball press conference. The UCLA Bruins men’s basketball team picked up its first recruit to the 2021 recruiting class yesterday when four-star shooting guard Will McClendon from Bishop Gorman in Las Vegas committed to the Bruins. McClendon made the announcement on Twitter. My journey!! @coreyevans_10 @EvanDaniels pic.twitter.com/OWCsg4DviF— kingwill05 (@WMcclendon) January 21, 2020 McClendon is a 6’,3” tall shooting guard who weighs 190 pounds. He explained his commitment to 247Sports: I chose UCLA due to coach (Mick)...
Ben Bolch / Los Angeles Times Jan 22, 2020 Shareef O'Neal announces decision to transfer from UCLA
Forward Shareef O'Neal, son of Shaquille O'Neal, tweeted on Wednesday that he plans to transfer out of UCLA.
Bruins Nation Jan 22, 2020
UCLA Basketball: Shareef O’Neal to Transfer
Shareef O’Neal apparently was tired of sitting on the bench and not playing | Richard Mackson-USA TODAY Sports Shareef had seemingly dropped out of Coach Cronin’s rotation. This evening, Shareef O’Neal announced on Twitter in a classy statement that he is the UCLA Bruins men’s basketball team and transferring out of UCLA. Next chapter... thank you ❤️ pic.twitter.com/EzHd6zRnuE— Shareef O’Neal (@SSJreef) January 23, 2020 Just wow. This is the most amazing transferring statement I can remember seeing. The line about “part of his heart” makes me like the kid even...
Bruins Nation Jan 21, 2020
Olympic Sports Roundup: UCLA Women’s Basketball Suffers First Loss of the Season
UCLA is downed by the Trojans, 70-68. | @UCLAWBB Women’s water polo loses to host UCSB while winning five other games, plus men’s tennis takes down BYU. Here is your Olympic Sports Roundup for the week of January 13, 2020. #10 UCLA Women’s Basketball In double overtime, the UCLA women’s basketball team suffered their first loss of the season to Southern Cal, 70-68. Senior Japreece Dean led the Bruins with 24 points and 10 rebounds; however, Southern Cal’s Aliyah Jeune notched a double-double of her own with 27 points and 13 rebounds for the first time in her career. At the...
Ben Bolch / Los Angeles Times Jan 21, 2020 Jalen Hill makes energetic return to UCLA's starting lineup
UCLA redshirt sophomore forward Jalen Hill moved back into the starting lineup last week and responded with sustained energy in back-to-back games.
Bruins Nation Jan 20, 2020
UCLA Basketball News Roundup: Coach Cronin’s Comedy
UCLA has a “go to” scorer now in Chris Smith | Richard Mackson-USA TODAY Sports After a win Coach Cronin cracks a few jokes and cuts back on the criticism The three main news sources for UCLA Basketball took three different takes on UCLA’s 50 to 40 win over UC Berkeley. LA Times Reporter Ben Bolch focused on the comedy of Coach Cronin: As the second half dragged toward its merciful finish Sunday, the question became not whether UCLA would win but whether California would score again. . . . “We had them at 37, and I was upset we gave up a three at the end,” Cronin said dryly...
