LOS ANGELES – The UCLA men's basketball team hosts an exhibition game against The Master's University (Santa Clarita, Calif.) on Tuesday evening in Pauley Pavilion. Game time is 7:30 p.m. (PT). UCLA's exhibition game will be broadcast by Pac-12 Network. This game will not be broadcast on the radio.
 
GAME INFORMATION
Venue: Pauley Pavilion (13,800)
Tipoff Time: 7:36 p.m. (PT)
Television: Pac-12 Networks
TV Talent: J.B. Long (play-by-play), Don MacLean (analyst)

TICKETS
Purchase tickets to UCLA's upcoming exhibition game by calling the UCLA Central Ticket Office (310-825-2101) on weekdays between 10 am and 4 pm. Purchase tickets online by clicking here.
 
BRUINS AT A GLANCE
UCLA returns 10 players who competed last season, including four of the team's five starters – Isaac Hamilton, Bryce Alford, Aaron Holiday and Thomas Welsh. Other prominent contributors back from last season's team are G.G. Goloman, Alex Olesinski and Prince Ali. After having gone 15-17 last year, UCLA has added three freshmen –  Ike Anigbogu, Lonzo Ball and TJ Leaf – who were nationally ranked among the top 25 incoming players by Scout.com and Rivals.com. In all, UCLA's roster includes three seniors, four juniors, three sophomores and five freshmen.
 
ON THE HORIZON
Join the Bruins on campus this Sunday, Nov. 6, as UCLA hosts the ninth annual Dribble for the Cure. This event, featuring both the men's and women's basketball teams, helps raise funds in the fight against pediatric cancer. UCLA's athletic department has joined forces with UCLA basketball Hall of Famer John Vallely, the Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation (PCRF) and the Cancer Research Program at Mattel Children's Hospital for this year's event. The "Dribble" registration on Sunday begins at 8:30 a.m. at Drake Stadium.
 
SENIOR LEADERS
Bryce Alford and Isaac Hamilton, a pair of senior guards, will open the 2016-17 season as two of the Pac-12 Conference's most veteran student-athletes. Alford has averaged 13.0 points in 105 career games the previous three seasons. He enters this season as the only returning player in a Power 5 conference to have averaged at least 16.0 points, 5.0 assists and 3.0 rebounds per game last season. Hamilton is the Pac-12's leading returning scorer from last year, having averaged a team-best 16.8 points per game in 2015-16.
 
CRUNCHING NUMBERS
UCLA returns 77.0 percent of its total scoring and 58.3 percent of its total rebounding production from 2015-16. In addition, the Bruins bring back 87.3 percent of its total assist production from last year. UCLA's returning players accounted for 74.9 percent of the team's minutes in 2015-16. Four returning players from last season's starting lineup averaged at least 10.0 points per game a year ago – Hamilton (16.8 ppg), Alford (16.1 ppg), Welsh (11.2 ppg) and Holiday (10.3 ppg). Those four players alone accounted for 73 percent of the Bruins scoring from last season.
 
SOPHOMORE SEASON
Among one of the most productive freshmen in the Pac-12 last season, Aaron Holiday enters his sophomore year after having averaged 10.3 points per game last season (started all 32 games in 2015-16). Holiday led UCLA in three-point field goal percentage during his freshman campaign, shooting 41.9 percent from beyond the arc. The younger brother of former UCLA guard Jrue Holiday, Aaron averaged 4.0 assists per game last season and enters this year as the third-leading assist producer in the Pac-12 (based off last season's statistics).
 
NAISMITH PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Freshman Lonzo Ball was named the Naismith High School Player of the Year as a senior at Chino Hills High School in 2015-16 (23.9 ppg, 11.3 rpg, 11.5 apg), leading his team to a 35-0 record and the CIF State Open Division Championship. The 6-foot-6 guard and fellow UCLA freshman TJ Leaf played in the 2016 McDonald's All-American Game in Chicago (March 30, 2016). Ball was also named the 2015-16 Male High School Athlete of the Year by MaxPreps and the Morgan Wootten Player of the Year, as well as the Gatorade State Player of the Year in California.
 
WELCOME TO WESTWOOD
Joining Ball in a recruiting class that was tabbed as high as No. 3, nationally, by Scout.com, are forward TJ Leaf and forward/center Ike Anigbogu (pronounced ee-KAY ah-nee-BOH-go). Leaf averaged 28.4 points, 12.4 rebounds and 5.3 assists per game as a senior at Foothills Christian High School last year. He led his high school program to the CIF San Diego Section Championship. Anigbogu registered 17.1 points and 9.6 rebounds in 25 games as a senior last season. He shot 61 percent from the field and tallied nine double-doubles for Centennial High School (Corona, Calif.).
 
BRUINS DOWN UNDER
UCLA spent 10 full days in Australia in August 2016, going 2-1 in three preseason games (NCAA rules allow college programs to take a foreign trip once every four years). The Bruins spent four days in Sydney, three in Melbourne and three in Gold Coast before returning to Los Angeles the morning of Aug. 31. UCLA cruised past Sydney University, 123-76, in its first game. The Bruins followed with two games against professional teams in Australia's National Basketbal League (NBL), losing to the Melbourne United (89-84) and defeating the Brisbane Bullets (94-91).