The Bruins will play at Colorado on Thursday evening, having closed their home schedule on Thursday, Feb. 28, with a 93-88 overtime win versus USC. Colorado has won its last three matchups against UCLA, including an 84-73 win over the Bruins in Pauley Pavilion presented by Wescom on Thursday, Feb. 6. UCLA is seeking its first win at Colorado since the 2016-17 school year. In all, UCLA has gone 3-8 away from home this season, with a 3-4 record in seven Pac-12 road contests.
 
GAME INFORMATION
Venue: CU Events Center (capacity: 11,064)
Game Time: 6 p.m. (PT) / 7 p.m. (MT)
Television: ESPN2
TV Talent: Dave Pasch (play-by-play), Bill Walton (analyst)
Radio (UCLA Sports Network): AM 570
Radio Talent: Josh Lewin (play-by-play)
XM Radio Channels: Ch. 381
SIRIUS App Channel: Ch. 972
 
LAST WEEK'S 93-88 VICTORY
Five Bruins scored in double figures last Thursday night, as UCLA downed USC in overtime, 93-88. Jaylen Hands finished with a team-leading 21 points, connecting on 5-of-10 shots from 3-point range. Kris Wilkes had 16 points, eight rebounds and five assists, while Moses Brown logged his team-leading ninth double-double of the season (10 points, 14 rebounds). UCLA shot nearly 48 percent from the field, draining 11 of 30 shots from 3-point territory in the overtime victory.
 
UCLA DEFEATS OREGON, 90-83
Jaylen Hands scored all of his game-high 27 points in the second half to lead UCLA past Oregon, 90-83, on Saturday, Feb. 23. The Bruins trailed by 16 points at halftime (44-28) and by as many as 19 early in the second half (47-28) before using a 27-6 scoring run over the next 7:30 to lead, 55-53, with 10:36 to play. UCLA outscored the Ducks in the second half, 62-39, marking the Bruins' highest-scoring half all season. Kris Wilkes and Jules Bernard each totaled 20 points.
 
HALFTIME DEFICIT
UCLA erased a 16-point halftime deficit (44-28) in the home victory against Oregon. That marked the largest halftime deficit the Bruins had overcome since Jan. 29, 2005, when UCLA downed crosstown rival USC at the Los Angeles Sports Arena, 72-69, after having trailed by 18 points at the break (USC led, 43-25).
 
THE LATEST ABOUT UCLA
- The Bruins have just two regular-season games to play – at Colorado (March 7) and at Utah (March 9).
- Sophomore Jaylen Hands has averaged a team-leading 20.2 points in the last five games (47.2% from 3-point range).
- Freshman Jules Bernard has scored in double figures in six of the past seven games (career-high 20 points vs. Oregon).
- Sophomore Kris Wilkes, UCLA's leading scorer (17.1 ppg), has scored in double figures in 27 of 29 games this season.
 
ROLLER COASTER
UCLA has overcome deficits of 19 points (Feb. 23) and 17 points (Jan. 10) in the second half against Oregon this season. Back on Jan. 10, UCLA trailed by nine points in the game's final minute, tying the contest at 80-80 to force overtime. Conversely, UCLA saw a 22-point lead with 12:10 to play in the second half fade away against Utah on Feb. 9. Trailing 92-90, Utah's Parker Van Dyke nailed a buzzer-beating 3-pointer to give the Runnin' Utes a dramatic 93-92 win at UCLA.
 
SCORING AND REBOUNDING
UCLA ranks No. 1 in the Pac-12 in scoring (78.6 ppg) and rebounding (41.4 rpg), through games played on Sunday, March 3. The Bruins ranked No. 8 in rebounding and No. 34 in rebounding margin, through Saturday, March 2. In addition, Bruins' freshman Moses Brown (10.5 ppg, 8.7 rpg) currently ranks fourth in the league in rebounding, first in offensive boards per game (3.6), and third in blocks per game (1.9) and overall field goal percentage (62.7%).
 
ASSIST LEADER
Sophomore Jaylen Hands leads all Pac-12 players in total assists (189) and assists per game (6.5). The 6-foot-3 guard from San Diego has averaged 13.8 points, 3.5 rebounds and 6.5 assists in 29 games. He ranked fourth in the Pac-12 in assist-turnover ratio (2.2-to-1), through games played Saturday, March 2. He has recorded at least nine assists in eight games and tallied 10 (or more) assists in three consecutive games in December (vs. Hawai'i, Notre Dame and Belmont).
 
PAC-12 TOURNAMENT
UCLA will travel to Las Vegas for the Pac-12 Tournament next week (scheduled for March 13-16). For the third straight season, the Pac-12 Tournament will take place at T-Mobile Arena. UCLA last won the tournament in March 2014, winning consecutive games against Stanford, Oregon and Arizona. Since that season, the Bruins have in the tournament's semifinal round in 2015, 2017 and 2018. In all, UCLA has won the conference tournament four times (1987, 2006, 2008 and 2014).
 
NEWS AND NOTES
- Eight of UCLA's primary 10 rotation players are either freshmen or sophomores ... five of those student-athletes are freshmen (includes two redshirt freshmen), three are sophomores, and two are redshirt juniors.
 
- The Bruins have posted a 13-4 record this year when leading at halftime ... those losses were against North Carolina in Las Vegas (Nov. 23) and versus Belmont (Dec. 15), Arizona State (Jan. 24) and Utah (Feb. 9) in Pauley Pavilion.
 
- The Bruins have gone 3-9 when trailing at halftime ... the Bruins overcame a 19-point deficit with 19 minutes to play against Oregon (Feb. 23) and a 17-point deficit with just under seven minutes remaining at Oregon (Jan. 10).
 
- UCLA has attempted 642 3-point shots this season, a single-season total that ranks No. 6 on the school's top-10 list ... UCLA's 226 made 3-pointers ranks No. 7 on that top-10 list (the 2016-17 team made a school-record 354 3-pointers).
 
- Kris Wilkes has scored in double figures in 27 of UCLA's 29 games ... he leads all current UCLA players in most career points (949), career field goals made (341), career three-pointers made (116) and career free throws made (151).
 
- Moses Brown leads all Pac-12 players in offensive rebounds per game (3.6 o-rpg, 104 total offensive boards) ... he secured a season-high seven offensive rebounds in wins against Purdue Fort Wayne (Nov. 6) and Saint Francis U (Nov. 16).
 
- Moses Brown became UCLA's first player with at least 19 points and 17 rebounds in his collegiate debut since Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (then Lew Alcindor) tallied a then-school-record 56 points and grabbed 21 rebounds on Dec. 3, 1966.
 
- Moses Brown had eight blocks in the team's win against Saint Francis U (Nov. 16) ... since the school began to officially record blocks in 1978-79, only three other players at UCLA have recorded at least eight blocks in one game.
 
- In Dec. 2018, Jaylen Hands became the first UCLA player with multiple games of at least 10 assists in the same season since Lonzo Ball finished his freshman year (2016-17) with seven games of at least 10 assists.
 
- Jalen Hill registered a season-best 20 rebounds in the team's victory over Presbyterian (Nov. 19) ... that marked the highest single-game rebound total by a Bruin since Kevin Love had 21 rebounds at Oregon State on Jan. 26, 2008.
 
- UCLA tallied a season-high 14 three-pointers in the team's comeback victory against Oregon (Feb. 23), going 14-for-22 from long distance ... Jaylen Hands led the effort by shooting 7-for-10 from 3-point range that evening.
 
- In the Bruins' 93-88 overtime win against USC (Feb. 28), the Trojans set records for the most 3-pointers attempted in one game against UCLA (50) and the most 3-pointers made in a game versus the Bruins (19).