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UCLA to Play at Arizona State on Saturday
February 09, 2018 | Men's Basketball
TEMPE, Ariz. โ UCLA looks to sweep its road trip to the Arizona schools on Saturday, as the Bruins take on Arizona State at 4 pm PT (5 pm MT). The Bruins (17-7, 8-4 Pac-12) secured an 82-74 win at No. 13 Arizona on Thursday night (McKale Center in Tucson, Ariz.). Saturday's game will be televised by the Pac-12 Network, while the radio broadcast will be available in the Los Angeles area on AM 1150.
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GAME INFORMATION
Venue: Wells Fargo Arena (10,754)
Game Time: 4 pm, PT (5 pm, MT)
Television: Pac-12 Network
TV Talent: Guy Haberman (play-by-play), Don MacLean (analyst), Jill Savage (sideline)
Radio (UCLA Sports Network from IMG): AM 1150
Radio Talent: Josh Lewin (play-by-play), Tracy Murray (analyst)
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MORE ABOUT SATURDAY'S MATCHUP
The Bruins are seeking their third consecutive victory at Arizona State (18-6, 6-6 Pac-12), having won previous meetings against ASU at Wells Fargo Arena in 2016 and 2017. Last year, UCLA downed Arizona State in Los Angeles, 102-80, before taking down the Sun Devils in Tempe, 87-75, to sweep the regular-season series. UCLA has compiled a 68-19 all-time record against Arizona State and has won seven of the last eight overall meetings (including each of the last four games in this Pac-12 series).
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UCLA DOWNS ARIZONA
Aaron Holiday scored a team-high 17 points and G.G. Goloman had 16 points to lead UCLA past No. 13 Arizona, 82-74, before a capacity crowd (14,644) at McKale Center in Tucson on Thursday. Five Bruins scored in double figures as UCLA won for the third time in its last five games at Arizona's McKale Center. In fact, Arizona has gone 93-5 at home since the start of the 2012-13 season. The Bruins have handed Arizona three of those five losses. Arizona's other two home losses took place against Oregon (in 2015-16) and versus California (in 2012-13). UCLA shot 51.6% on Thursday against Arizona.
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Senior forward G.G. Goloman (7.3 ppg, 4.1 rpg) had a career night in UCLA's 82-74 victory at Arizona on Thursday. He set career highs in points (16), three-pointers made (3) and minutes played (36). Goloman nailed critical three-pointers with 6:10 to play and 1:42 to play, helping the Bruins maintain a double-digit lead.
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UCLA has shot 81.4% (105-for-129) from the free throw line in its last five games. Overall, the Bruins have shot 72.0 percent at the charity stripe this season. The Bruins are shooting 75.8% at the free throw line in league play. Aaron Holiday (83.3% from the free throw line) ranks No. 10 in the Pac-12 in that shooting category.
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TOP REBOUNDER
Through games played Feb. 8, senior center Thomas Welsh ranked No. 15 in the country in rebounds per game (10.4) and was one of just 11 players in the nation to have recorded at least 14 double-doubles. In fact, Welsh currently ranks second in the nation in total career rebounds (927) among any player from one of the "power six" conferences (ACC, Big East, Big 12, Big Ten, Pac-12 and SEC). Seton Hall's Angel Delgado (1,328) leads all players nationwide in career rebounds. Welsh has been named as one of 10 players to the midseason watch list for the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Center of the Year Award.
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HOLIDAY'S HEROICS
Aaron Holiday ranks fifth in the Pac-12 in scoring (19.1 ppg), through Thursday, Feb. 8. He has totaled at least 20 points in 12 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 currently ranks No. 38 on UCLA's all-time scoring list with 1,230 points (he is 142 points shy of becoming the No. 30 all-time scorer in school history). He ranks No. 8 this season in the Pac-12 (all games) in three-point field goal percentage (42.3%, 52-of-123) and is No. 10 in free throw percentage (83.3%, 120-of-144).
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Through games played Sunday, Feb. 4, Holiday was one of six players in NCAA Division I men's basketball to have averaged at least 19.0 points and 5.0 assists per game. Others in that group included Trae Young (Oklahoma), RJ Cole (Howard), Junior Robinson (Mount St. Mary's), Jon Elmore (Marshall) and Jermaine Marrow (Hampton).
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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.
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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.
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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).
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WILKES AND HANDS
Freshmen Kris Wilkes (13.8 ppg, 5.3 rpg) and Jaylen Hands (11.1 ppg, 4.0 rpg, 3.0 apg) have played major roles this season for UCLA. Wilkes finished with 14 points (on 5-of-11 shooting) at Arizona on Thursday, while Hands scored all of his 11 points in the first half. Hands made three 3-point field goals in the final minute of the first half against Arizona, helping the Bruins enter the locker room at halftime with a 44-34 advantage. Wilkes has scored in double figures in 19 of 24 games and has scored at least 20 points in four contests (Wilkes has twice totaled a season-high 21 points).
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ON THIS DATE, 20 YEARS AGO
Tracy Murray, UCLA's radio broadcast analyst, scored a career-high 50 points for the Washington Wizards on Feb. 10, 1998, in a 99-87 win against the Golden State Warriors (in Oakland, Calif.). Murray, who starred at UCLA from 1990-92, made 18 of 29 shots from the field in that game and was 5-for-10 from 3-point range.
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DOUBLE-DOUBLES
Thomas Welsh (12.9 ppg, 10.4 rpg) has totaled 14 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.
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MORE ABOUT THE BRUINS
Aaron Holiday ranks first among all Pac-12 players (in conference games only) in scoring, having averaged 20.6 points in the Bruins' 12 league games (through games played Feb. 8). In addition, Holiday has made 31 of 57 three-point attempts in Pac-12 Conference action, converting at a 54.4% clip (the No. 1 three-point percentage among Pac-12 players).
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The Bruins have shot 50.0% or better in nine games (going 8-1 in those contests). UCLA shot a season-best 58.2% in the team's 107-84 win at California (Jan. 6). Most recently, the Bruins shot 51.6% (32-for-62) in a road win at No. 13 Arizona on Thursday. UCLA has shot 47.8 percent from three-point range in the last three games (33-for-69).
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Aaron Holiday and Thomas Welsh both reached the heralded 1,000-career-point milestone in a Pac-12 victory against Washington State earlier this season (Dec. 29, 2017). In a 33-point, 11-rebound performance, Holiday crossed the 1,000 point marker in the first half of the game. Welsh reached the milestone in the second half of UCLA's victory that night.
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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 12.9 ppg and 10.4 rpg). Welsh (11 pts, 12 rebs) and Ayton (16 pts, 12 rebs) each had double-doubles when UCLA won at No. 13 Arizona, 82-74, on Thursday, Feb. 8.
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MOVIN' ON UP
Thomas Welsh ranks third on the school's all-time blocked shots list (137), having surpassed Charles O'Bannon (118) for the No. 3 slot earlier this season. The top two spots on UCLA's career blocks list are occupied by Jelani McCoy (188) and Dan Gadzuric (184). McCoy played at UCLA from 1995-98, while Gadzuric starred for the Bruins from 1999-2002. Welsh has totaled 13 double-doubles in 23 games for the Bruins this season. Please note, UCLA's official "blocked shot" statistic has only been tracked on a consistent basis since the 1978-79 season.
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