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Ben Howland's Embarrassing Milestones In 2009-10 Season
Coach Ben Howland anointed himself as the "Caretaker of Westwood" guarding the tradition and prestige of a program built by the greatest coach in college sports (if not American sports landscape). He got off to a wonderful start when was able to resurrect the UCLA basketball program from the...
Philly Wrap
So wanted to share with you some of my extended notes and thoughts from the weekend trip to Philly. The game wasn’t fun but we are more than glad to make that trip to see one of the best senior classes in the history of UCLA basketball to play their last game. Plus the rush of hearing our...
"It ALL STARTS with our DEFENSE"
I wrote yesterday about how we wanted our Ben Ball warriors to repeat Thursday. We wanted them to sustain the (defense generated) momentum gained from putting together probably the best all around performance of the season against the Bears. Well they got it done yesterday afternoon. Ben Ball...
"If I take that ball away, who are you?"
The question came from Lela Nicholson, who is none other than grandmother of Baron Davis. Here are some of the answers from B'Diddy courtesy of L. Jon Wertheim of SI.com: In the summer of 2006 Davis, who was then with the Golden State Warriors, addressed the Congressional Black Caucus in...
A Memorable Win For The Caretaker Of Westwood
Thanks again to Telemachus for posting the video highlights from yesterdays (what appears to be crisp and efficient) win over the DePaul Blue Demons. We are now 8-3 in 12 Wooden Classic appearances, including 8-0 as a ranked team. The topline news in terms of statistics was last night’s win...
Coach's Words
Ben Ball warriors are in the middle of Finals week right now in Westwood. They are not going to have a lot of time to recover and rest as they will be in Anaheim on Friday getting ready for the 2008 Wooden Classic. They are going to be at Honda Center, doing a clinic for the Southern California...












