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UCLA to Play at Oregon State on Thursday
January 14, 2018 | Men's Basketball
The Bruins will return to the road this week, facing Oregon State on Thursday evening in Corvallis, Ore., before taking on Oregon on Saturday night in Eugene, Ore. The Bruins won both of their regular-season games against Oregon State last season, securing a 76-63 decision against Oregon State at Gill Coliseum (Dec. 30, 2016) before taking down the Beavers, 78-60, in Pauley Pavilion (Feb. 12, 2017). UCLA has won four of its last five meetings against Oregon State, including each of the last two games versus OSU at Gill Coliseum (the Bruins won road games in Jan. 2016 and Dec. 2016).
GAME INFORMATION
Venue: Gill Coliseum (9,604)
Game Time: 8 p.m. (PT)
Television: FS1
TV Talent: Aaron Goldsmith (play-by-play), Doug Gottlieb (analyst)
Radio (UCLA Sports Network from IMG): AM 570
Radio Talent: Josh Lewin (play-by-play), Tracy Murray (analyst)
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VERSUS OREGON STATE
UCLA has compiled a 95-37 all-time record versus Oregon State and has gone 5-3 against the Beavers in four previous seasons under head coach Steve Alford. Oregon State will face UCLA in Pauley Pavilion the night of Thursday, Feb. 15, in a game that will be nationally televised on FS1.
LAST WEEK
UCLA split a pair of home games against Utah (UCLA won, 83-64) and Colorado (UCLA lost, 68-59) in Pauley Pavilion last Thursday and Saturday, respectively. The Bruins had among their most efficient outings in the win over Utah, shooting above 50 percent from the field for the fifth time this year (51.8%, 29-of-56). Against Utah, UCLA made 12 of 23 three-pointers and committed just eight turnovers. Two nights later, UCLA logged its lowest overall field goal percentage (37.1%, 23-of-62) in any game this season and connected on just five of 25 attempts from three-point range against Colorado.
THURSDAY'S VICTORY
Aaron Holiday scored 20 points and was a perfect 4-for-4 from three-point territory to lead UCLA past Utah, 83-64, in Pauley Pavilion last Thursday night. Kris Wilkes added 19 points in a game that saw UCLA lead from start to finish. The Bruins pushed ahead by a 19-7 margin early, led at halftime by a 41-33 margin and increased its lead to 15 points with 16 minutes to play in regulation (52-37 at the 16:05 mark, second half).
SATURDAY'S SETBACK
Colorado's George King scored a game-high 26 points and was the Buffaloes' only player to score in double figures. That marked the first game UCLA lost in which the opposing team had just one player to score 10 or more points since March 6, 2010, when Arizona State downed the Bruins, 56-46, in Tempe, Ariz. (behind Eric Boateng's 16-point and 14-rebound performance at Wells Fargo Arena).
HOLIDAY'S HEROICS
Aaron Holiday ranks fifth among all Pac-12 players in scoring (18.9 ppg), through games played on Jan. 13, and has totaled at least 20 points in eight games. He entered his junior season having scored at least 20 points in just three previous games (all as a sophomore in 2016-17). Holiday has been selected to the 25-man midseason list for the 2018 John R. Wooden Award, presented annually to the nation's top men's and women's college basketball players. Holiday has averaged 21.5 points in six Pac-12 games, shooting 58.6 percent from three-point range (17-for-29) in league play.
MORE ON HOLIDAY
Holiday (33 points and 11 rebounds against Washington State on Dec. 29) became UCLA's first player to record at least 33 points and 11 rebounds in a game since Feb. 26, 1995. Ed O'Bannon had team highs of 37 points and 13 rebounds in UCLA's 100-77 win over Duke in Pauley Pavilion, connecting on 14 of 22 shots.
Holiday has become just the third UCLA player in the last 20 seasons (1998-99 through 2017-18) to have scored at least 30 points in two or more games in a single season. Jordan Adams had a pair of 30+ point games as a sophomore in 2013-14. Bryce Alford had two games with at least 30 points as a senior in 2016-17.
Holiday's game-winning layup with 0.9 seconds to play helped UCLA edge Wisconsin, 72-70, in Kansas City, Mo., on Nov. 21. UCLA trailed the Badgers, 65-59, with 3:30 to play before Holiday scored the Bruins' final 10 points. He scored six of UCLA's final 10 points in the Bruins' 83-75 win over Kentucky in New Orleans (Dec. 23).
SENIOR LEADER
Senior center Thomas Welsh has averaged 12.8 points and 10.7 rebounds this season and enters Thursday's game at Oregon State as the Pac-12's second-leading rebounder (behind Arizona freshman Deandre Ayton, 11.3 rpg). Welsh has totaled 10 double-doubles in 18 games, and he scored a team-leading 20 points in UCLA's 68-59 loss to Colorado on Saturday. Welsh was 9-for-10 from the field, connecting on all seven shots from inside the three-point arc. Welsh, who had only attempted one three-pointer prior to this season, has shot 42.9 percent (21-for-49) from three-point range this year.
1,000 POINT CLUB
Aaron Holiday and Thomas Welsh each reached the heralded 1,000-career-point milestone in a Pac-12 victory versus Washington State (Dec. 29). With a 23-point first half that night, Holiday became the 55th player in program history to have scored 1,000 or more points in a UCLA uniform. In the second half of that game, Welsh became the 56th player to achieve the milestone. Holiday's 23 points (in his 33-point effort) marked the largest first-half point total by a Bruin since Jan. 18, 2017, when Isaac Hamilton erupted for 25 first-half points against Arizona State (Hamilton finished with 33 points).
DOUBLE-DOUBLES
Thomas Welsh (12.8 ppg, 10.7 rpg) has totaled 10 double-doubles for the second season in his career. He also had 10 double-doubles as a sophomore in 2015-16. Welsh is the eighth UCLA player in the past 20 years to have logged at least 10 double-doubles in one season. Since the start of the Bruins' 1998-99 campaign, Kevin Love has registered more double-doubles in a single season than any other UCLA player (23 double-doubles in 2007-08). The school's single-season double-doubles record is 28 by Lew Alcindor (now Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) during the Bruins' 1967-68 NCAA title-winning season.
THIS AND THAT
UCLA's 59 points last Saturday night versus Colorado marked the team's lowest single-game point total in Pauley Pavilion since Feb. 7, 2013, when the Bruins edged Washington, 59-57. Larry Drew II nailed a game-winning jump shot at the buzzer to help UCLA take down the Huskies that night. The 59 points last Saturday were the fewest by UCLA in a loss in Pauley Pavilion since absorbing a 63-52 setback to USC on Jan. 9, 2011.
The Bruins have shot 50.0% or better from the field in five games this season (going 5-0 in those contests). UCLA shot a season-best 58.2% in the team's 107-84 win at California on Saturday, Jan. 6, connecting on a season-best 56.7% of its three-point attempts (17-of-30). The Bruins have limited their opponents to fewer than 50.0% shooting in all but one game (Stanford made 51.4% of its field goal attempts in UCLA's double-overtime loss on the road on Jan. 4).
UCLA ranks second among all Pac-12 teams in points scored per game (84.0 ppg) and is first in total rebounds per game (40.2). Junior guard Aaron Holiday is the league's only player to rank among the top five in both scoring (18.9 ppg) and assists per game (5.2). Senior center Thomas Welsh and Arizona's Deandre Ayton are the only players in the Pac-12 to have averaged at least 10 points and 10 rebounds per game (Welsh currently stands at 12.8 ppg and 10.7 rpg).
