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UCLA to Face Oregon on the Road This Saturday
January 19, 2018 | Men's Basketball
EUGENE, Ore. – The Bruins conclude their road trip at Oregon on Saturday evening (7:15 p.m., PT), facing the Ducks in a nationally-televised game (ESPN). UCLA opened Pac-12 play at Oregon last season (Dec. 28, 2017), losing to the Ducks at Matthew Knight Arena, 89-87, on a buzzer-beating three-point shot by Oregon's Dillon Brooks. In the rematch in Pauley Pavilion the night of Feb. 9, 2017, UCLA overcame a 13-point deficit with under 14 minutes to play and downed the Ducks, 82-79.
GAME INFORMATION
Venue: Matthew Knight Arena (12,346)
Game Time: 7:15 p.m. (PT)
Television: ESPN
TV Talent: Dave Pasch (play-by-play), Bill Walton (analyst)
Radio (UCLA Sports Network from IMG): AM 1150
Radio Talent: Josh Lewin (play-by-play), Tracy Murray (analyst)
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AGAINST OREGON
UCLA has compiled an 87-35 all-time record versus Oregon and has gone 4-5 against the Ducks in four previous seasons under head coach Steve Alford. Oregon will face UCLA in Pauley Pavilion the night of Saturday, Feb. 17, in a Pac-12 showdown that will be nationally televised on either ESPN or ESPN2.
LAST TIME OUT
UCLA lost at Oregon State, 69-63, on Thursday in a Pac-12 game at Gill Coliseum. Aaron Holiday scored 22 points, recording his ninth game this season with at least 20 points. Thomas Welsh logged his 11th double-double of the season, finishing the game with 10 points and a team-high 13 rebounds. UCLA trailed at Oregon State, 48-40, with 12:09 to play before using an 8-0 scoring run over a three-minute span to tie the contest, 48-48. The Bruins led 60-59 with 3:24 to play before Oregon State used a 10-3 scoring run to close the game and secure a six-point win.
PAC-12 PLAY
UCLA has gone 4-3 through its first seven Pac-12 games and is seeking its first victory at Oregon's Matthew Knight Arena since a 70-68 win over the Ducks on Jan. 30, 2014. Aaron Holiday has averaged 21.6 points and has shot 58.8 percent (20-of-34) from three-point range in UCLA's seven Pac-12 games this season. Thomas Welsh is currently averaging 11.9 points and 11.0 rebounds per game in league play.
HOLIDAY'S HEROICS
Aaron Holiday ranks fifth among all Pac-12 players in scoring (19.1 ppg), through games played Jan. 18, and he has totaled at least 20 points in nine 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 currently ranks No. 47 on UCLA's all-time scoring list with 1,134 career points (he stands just 69 points from moving into UCLA's all-time top 40).
SENIOR LEADER
Senior center Thomas Welsh has averaged 12.7 points and 10.8 rebounds this season and enters Saturday night's game at Oregon as the Pac-12's second-leading rebounder (behind Arizona freshman Deandre Ayton, 11.3 rpg). Welsh has totaled 11 double-doubles in 19 games, and he scored a team-leading 20 points in UCLA's 68-59 loss to Colorado last Saturday. Welsh was 9-for-10 from the field, connecting on all seven shots from inside the three-point arc against the Buffaloes. Welsh currently ranks eighth among all Pac-12 players in three-point percentage (41.8%, 23-for-55).
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 (12.7 ppg, 10.8 rpg) has totaled 11 double-doubles this season. He recorded 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
Aaron Holiday ranks second among all Pac-12 players (in conference games only) in scoring, having averaged 21.6 points in the Bruins' seven league games. Only Arizona's Deandre Ayton (21.8 ppg) ranks ahead of Holiday. In addition, Holiday has made 20 of 34 shots from three-point range in Pac-12 play, registering a league-leading 58.8% three-point percentage in Pac-12 play. Holiday's 48.4 overall percentage in Pac-12 games ranks No. 15 among Pac-12 players.
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 (82.9 ppg) and is first in total rebounds per game (40.0). Junior guard Aaron Holiday is the league's only player to rank among the top five in both scoring (19.1 ppg) and assists per game (5.1). 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 12.7 ppg and 10.8 rpg).
