2011--12-ucla--california-basketball Stories - Bruins Nation
Monty Clowns Howland Again: Bruins Lose 73-63
Put to rest all thoughts and pipe dreams of a potential at-large berth to the tournament. If the Bruins were walking a tightrope before, following the 73-63 drubbing Cal gave Ben Howland's listless, confused, hapless team, that rope has snapped. Against a marginally talented but well coached Bears...
UCLA Hoops Notes: Healthy Bruins, Free Throw "Issues" & Being "Ready" for the Bears
Let's go over some quick game day notes before we get set for the tip off the "biggest test of the season." The tip-off is scheduled for 1:07 pm PST (FSN and Prime Ticket). It is worth repeating that this is very much a must-win game if the Bruins want to hold on to any hope of salvaging this...
UCLA Basketball Roundup: UCLA Beats Stanford Playing Against Type
UCLA won the kind of game it would have lost earlier in the year in the Pac-12. Josh Smith was limited by foul trouble. The Bruins who have been very good taking care of the ball this year made a lot of turnovers. The Cardinal made a number of runs against the Bruins. But that is just it: UCLA...
UCLA Basketball Roundup: Can the Bruins Bounce Back?
UCLA put up a valiant effort on the road against Stanford but gave up in the second half on defense against Cal. The moral is simple: no UCLA team can let an oponent shoot 64% and expect to win. And it was not like Allen Crabbe or Jorge Gutierrez where killing UCLA, it was guys that should not...
UCLA Hoops Roundup: Notes on California Bears, Dual Game Threads Logistics
Well this is going to be an interesting Saturday. It's New Year's Eve and thanks to total incompetence from Chianti Dan, we are going to be in a bizarre position to follow both our football and basketball team around the same time this afternoon. So let's start this post with some logistical...
UCLA Hoops Roundup: Ben Howland’s Bad Decisions
So Ben Howland's Bruins are off to a 0-1 start in the PAtheticC-12 conference season. What is eating away at many of us is how we blew a winnable game against an average team because of bad coaching decisions. Tracy Pierson at BruinReportOnline.com singled out Howland's bad and dumb founding...
Howland’s Mentally Soft Bruins Drop Pac-12 Opener to Stanford 59-60
It's almost 1:30 am out here in the East Coast and I am wondering why I just stayed up to watch what just unfolded in Palo Alto. Ben Howland's Bruins were feeling good about themselves after a 5 game win streak (during PRN era) compiled against 4 cupcakes and a mediocre mid-major in Richmond....
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