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Bruins Set to Host Stanford on Wednesday
January 13, 2020 | Men's Basketball
LOS ANGELES โ UCLA continues a three-game homestand against Stanford on Wednesday evening (7 p.m.) before taking on California on Sunday (5 p.m.). Last season, UCLA went 2-1 against Stanford. Each school won the regular-season matchup on its home court, and UCLA secured a 79-72 win in a first-round game at the Pac-12 Tournament in Las Vegas. Since the start of the 2016-17 campaign, UCLA has compiled a 5-2 mark against Stanford. The Bruins lead the all-time series, 147-95.
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GAME INFORMATION
Venue: Pauley Pavilion presented by Wescom
Venue Capacity: 13,800
Tipoff Time: 7:05 p.m. (PT)
Television: Pac-12 Network
TV Talent: J.B. Long (play-by-play), Don MacLean (analyst)
Radio (UCLA Sports Network): AM 570
Radio Talent: Josh Lewin (play-by-play), Tracy Murray (analyst)
XM Channel: Ch. 373
SIRIUSXM Internet Channel: Ch. 373
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WEDNESDAY'S PROMOTIONS
Fans heading to the Bruins' game this Wednesday can enjoy $1 bags of chips with the purchase of a hot dog, as well as other great culinary selections from three food trucks โ Richeeze Melts, Go Fusion N Grill, and The Lobos Truck) along the arena's south concourse. There will be free pizza and 'The Den' stickers for the first 500 UCLA students. Tickets are available starting at less than $30 by clicking here or visiting the box office on Wednesday evening.
ABOUT STANFORD
Stanford enters this game with a 14-2 overall mark, having won games last week against Washington and Washington State (at Stanford). UCLA has won each of its last 13 home games against Stanford (12 of those in Pauley Pavilion, one in the Los Angeles Sports Arena). That home winning streak began during the 2005-06 season.
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HISTORY WITH CALIFORNIA
vs. California: The Bruins went 2-0 against California last season, including a 75-67 overtime decision in Berkeley, Calif., to earn the season sweep. UCLA has won its last five meetings against California, a streak that began with an 81-71 victory over the Golden Bears in Pauley Pavilion on Jan. 5, 2017.
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LAST TIME OUT
The Bruins dropped a 74-63 decision to USC on Saturday night in Pauley Pavilion. Chris Smith logged his second double-double of the season, totaling 16 points and 10 rebounds. USC led the Bruins at halftime, 33-31, and pushed its advantage to as many as 14 points (58-44) before UCLA cut the deficit down to six points (63-57) with nearly four minutes remaining. Jalen Hill (14 points) and Prince Ali (10 points) rounded out UCLA's list of double-figure scorers against the Trojans.
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UCLA'S LAST ROAD TRIP
The Bruins split a pair of road games at Washington (W, 66-64) and Washington State (L, 79-71 in OT) to open Pac-12 play. In the two-point win over Washington, Jake Kyman made 7 of 12 attempts from 3-point distance. Kyman nailed the game-winning 3-pointer with under nine seconds to play in the second half. He became UCLA's first player to make at least seven 3-pointers since Jaylen Hands went 7-for-10 from long range in a 90-83 win over Oregon on Feb. 23, 2019.
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NOTES ON THE BRUINS
- UCLA has gone 8-0 this season when limiting the opposition to 73 points or fewer.
- Junior Chris Smith has averaged 18.3 points, 9.7 rebounds and 2.6 assists in the Bruins' three Pac-12 games.
- Freshman Jake Kyman averaged 14.5 points and made 9 of 17 attempts from 3-point range in two games last week.
- Freshman Jaime Jaquez Jr. has averaged 11.0 points and 6.5 rebounds in UCLA's last 10 games.
- Sophomore Jalen Hill has averaged a team-leading 7.1 rebounds per game, which ranks eighth in the Pac-12.
- UCLA has had 11 players, including freshmen, establish new career highs in points scored this season.
- The Bruins ranked second in the Pac-12 in rebounding margin (+7.88 rpg), through games played Monday, Jan. 13.
- UCLA has out-rebounded the opposition in 15 of 16 games this year (currently averaging 38.8 rebounds per game).
- Through games played Sunday, Jan. 12, the Bruins ranked No. 19 in the nation in rebounding margin (+7.88).
- In addition, UCLA ranked No. 20 in the nation (through Sunday, Jan. 12) in offensive rebounds per game (13.25).
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THE BRUINS' LEADING SCORER
Junior guard Chris Smith enters the week as UCLA's leading scorer, having averaged 12.4 points and 5.4 rebounds per game in all 16 contests. Smith has posted career-high percentages this season in overall field goals (46.4%), 3-pointers (33.3%) and free throws (84.5%). In fact, he ranks third among all Pac-12 players in free throw percentage. He has scored 199 points this season, just eight shy of his entire total from last year (207). In addition, Smith has made 70 shots (shooting 46.4%), just five fewer shots than he made as a sophomore last year (75, having shot 40.5% overall in 2018-19).
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ABOUT COACH CRONIN
Midway through his first year as UCLA's head coach, Mick Cronin spent the previous 13 seasons as head coach at Cincinnati (his alma mater). Cronin was named The Michael Price Family UCLA Men's Head Basketball Coach in April of 2019 and entered the season with 16 years of experience as a college head coach. He guided Cincinnati to the NCAA Tournament in each of the previous nine seasons (and in 11 of 13 total years at Cincinnati). He has compiled an all-time record of 373-179, entering this Wednesday's Pac-12 contest against Stanford.
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GLANCING AT UCLA'S ROSTER
UCLA's roster features 15 student-athletes, including 13 players who were on the team last season. The Bruins have returned eight of 11 players who competed in the bulk of the team's games last season. That returning nucleus includes fifth-year seniors Prince Ali and Alex Olesinski, junior Chris Smith and sophomores Jalen Hill, Cody Riley, Jules Bernard, Kenneth Nwuba and David Singleton. The Bruins return redshirt freshmen Tyger Campbell and Shareef O'Neal and have added incoming freshmen Jaime Jaquez Jr. (Camarillo, Calif.) and Jake Kyman (Aliso Viejo, Calif.), a pair of 6-foot-6 guards.
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EYE OF THE TYGER
Tyger Campbell, a redshirt freshman point guard, has averaged 7.6 points, 4.3 assists and 1.9 rebounds through 16 games. The 5-foot-11 guard from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, currently ranks eighth in the Pac-12 with 4.3 assists per game and is fourth in the league in assist-turnover ratio (2.13). He scored a season-best 18 points and had a season-high nine assists against Cal State Fullerton on Saturday, Dec. 28. Campbell has scored in double figures in six games. He recorded 15 points and five assists in his first collegiate game as the Bruins defeated Long Beach State (Nov. 6).
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GENERATING OFFENSE
UCLA has seven of its players this season lead the team in scoring in at least one game. Most recently, junior Chris Smith scored a team-leading 16 points (and had 10 rebounds) in the Bruins' 74-63 loss to USC on Saturday, Jan. 11. Two weeks ago, freshman Jake Kyman registered his first-ever double-digit scoring effort with 21 points against Washington. Kyman made 7 of 12 shots, all from 3-point distance, in the 66-64 win at Washington. Smith, who has averaged 12.4 points per game, has led the Bruins in scoring in six of 16 games (no other player has led the team in scoring in that many games).
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DOUBLE FIGURE SCORING
Senior Prince Ali has scored in double figures in 11 of 16 games this season. He registered a season-high 14 points in the Bruins' 71-54 victory over UNLV in the third game of the season. Ali has scored at least 10 points in 43 of 104 career games played (entering this Wednesday night's contest against Stanford).
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FIFTH-YEAR SENIORS
Redshirt seniors Prince Ali (9.4 ppg, 3.0 rpg) and Alex Olesinski (1.6 ppg, 2.1 rpg) are the first players at UCLA to have spent more than four years on the team since Michael Roll was a fifth-year senior in 2009-10. Roll finished his UCLA career as the program's all-time leader in games played (147 games, 2005-06 through 2009-10). Recent fifth-year seniors who didn't spend all five seasons in Westwood have included Travis Wear (senior in 2013-14), David Wear (senior in 2013-14) and Larry Drew II (senior in 2012-13) Both Ali and Olesinski have fulfilled their undergraduate degree requirements.
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NEWS AND NOTES
- Looking at UCLA's 15-man roster, 10 of the team's student-athletes either grew up in the Southern California region or attended high school in the Los Angeles area. Cody Riley (listed as Kansas City, Kan.), moved to the Los Angeles area when he was in middle school and attended Sierra Canyon High School (Chatsworth, Calif.).
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- UCLA out-rebounded the opposition in the team's first 15 games this season. The Bruins were out-rebounded by USC on Saturday, Jan. 11, by a 35-31 margin, marking the first game all year in which the opposing team secured more rebounds than UCLA. Jalen Hill enters this Wednesday night's game as UCLA's leading rebounder (7.1 rpg).
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- Senior Prince Ali, UCLA's top returning scorer from last season's team, enters the game against Stanford having scored 814 career points (7.8 ppg in 104 career contests). He currently leads UCLA's team in most career points scored. Junior Chris Smith ranks second in that category, having scored 536 career points through 82 games.
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- Freshman Jake Kyman set the school's single-game record for most 3-pointers by a freshman (7), as he made 7 of 12 attempts from long range in the team's 66-64 win at Washington on Thursday, Jan. 2. Kyman is UCLA's only freshman and just the ninth player in school history to have made seven or more 3-point field goals in one game.
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- The Bruins committed 27 personal fouls in an overtime loss (79-71) at Washington State on Saturday, Jan. 4. That marked the largest number of fouls committed by a UCLA team since an overtime loss at Stanford on Jan. 4, 2018, when the Bruins had 29 fouls. UCLA last committed 30 or more fouls in an 81-75 loss at Arizona on Feb. 12, 2016 (31 fouls).
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- UCLA's 22 offensive rebounds in the win at Washington (Jan. 2) marked the team's highest single-game offensive rebound total since Jan. 1, 2016. The Bruins had 23 offensive boards in a double overtime loss (96-93) at Washington on Jan. 1, 2016, to open Pac-12 action. In that game back in 2016, the Bruins totaled 59 rebounds against the Huskies.
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- UCLA forced 20 turnovers in the win against San Jose State on Sunday, Dec. 1. That marked the first time since March 1, 2017, in which the Bruins had forced 20 or more turnovers by their opponent. UCLA defeated Washington, 98-66, as the Huskies committed 20 turnovers. Lonzo Ball had four steals in the Bruins' 32-point win against Washington.
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- Jules Bernard, a sophomore from Los Angeles, scored 20 points off the bench in UCLA's 77-61 victory against UC Santa Barbara (Nov. 10). He tied his career high (points) in that game, having also logged 20 points off the bench in the Bruins' 90-83 victory at home against Oregon last season (Feb. 23, 2019), in what was UCLA's second-to-last home contest.
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- The largest single-game point total of any current UCLA player belongs to sophomore Jalen Hill, who had a career-best 24 points in a loss to Hofstra (Nov. 21, 2019) in Pauley Pavilion. The largest single-game rebound total of any current Bruin also belongs to Hill, who tallied 20 boards in a win against Presbyterian last season (Nov. 19, 2018).
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- Sophomore David Singleton finished his freshman campaign (2018-19) ranking No. 6 on the school's single-season list for highest 3-point percentage (46.7%). He made 35 of 75 shots from 3-point range, logging the second-highest percentage of any player in the Pac-12 (behind California's Matt Bradley, who shot 47.2%, making 50 of 106 attempts).
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NEXT NOVEMBER
UCLA will join Georgetown, Virginia and Kansas in the 2020 Paycom Wooden Legacy during the week of Thanksgiving (Anaheim Convention Center). This will mark UCLA's first appearance in the Wooden Legacy since winning the event in 2016. UCLA played in the tournament at the Anaheim Convention Center (2009) when the event was named the 76 Classic. In 2016, the Bruins defeated Portland and Nebraska on consecutive days at Cal State Fullerton (Nov. 24-25, 2016) before recording a 74-67 win over Texas A&M in the championship contest at the Honda center (Nov. 27, 2016).
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THE BRUINS WHEN ...
Since the start of the 2016-17 season, UCLA has gone 61-9 when leading at halftime (spanning 118 games). During that span, the Bruins have gone 14-31 when trailing at halftime (2-2 when tied at the break). UCLA's largest halftime deficit overcome in that stretch has been 16 points โ UCLA trailed at home against Oregon, 44-28, on Feb. 23, 2019, and outscored the Ducks in the second half (62-39) to win, 90-83. When the Bruins have built a 10-point lead (or larger) at any point in the game, UCLA has gone 67-9. When trailing by 10 or more points in a game, UCLA has gone 10-34.
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