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UCLA Prepares to Play at No. 12 Oregon on Sunday
January 24, 2020 | Men's Basketball
EUGENE, Ore. โ The Bruins will play at No. 12 Oregon on Sunday afternoon in a game that will be nationally televised by FOX. Game time at Matthew Knight Arena is scheduled for 2 p.m. (PT). Last season, the Bruins won a pair of regular-season games against Oregon. The Bruins overcame a 17-point deficit in the final seven minutes of regulation, winning in overtime (87-84) on Jan. 10, 2019. UCLA rallied from a 44-28 halftime deficit in Pauley Pavilion (Feb. 23, 2019) against Oregon, winning that contest by a 90-83 margin. Jaylen Hands scored all of his game-high 27 points in the second half in the victory in Los Angeles.
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GAME INFORMATION
Venue: Matthew Knight Arena
Venue Capacity: 12,364
Tipoff Time: 2:07 p.m. (PT)
Television: FOX
TV Talent: Joe Davis (play-by-play), Steve Lavin (analyst)
Radio (UCLA Sports Network): AM 1150
Radio Talent: Josh Lewin (play-by-play), Tracy Murray (analyst)
XM Radio Channel: Ch. 380
SIRIUSXM Internet Channel: Ch. 970
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ABOUT THE DUCKS
Under the direction of 10th-year head coach Dana Altman, the Oregon Ducks will enter this Sunday's game with a 16-4 overall record and a perfect 11-0 mark at home. Senior Payton Pritchard has averaged a team-leading 19.8 points per game for Oregon. He has also registered 5.8 assists per game (the second-best average in the Pac-12). In addition, junior Chris Duarte has registered 13.7 points and 5.7 rebounds per game.
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UCLA'S LAST TIME OUT
Chris Smith scored 15 points and Jaime Jaquez Jr. added 14 points as the Bruins outlasted Oregon State, 62-58, in Corvallis, Ore., on Thursday. Jules Bernard made 2 of 4 attempts from 3-point range, finishing with 11 points, and the Bruins secured their first since at Oregon State since Dec. 30, 2016. UCLA made 12 of 14 free throws during hte final 3:20 of the second half to earn the Pac-12 win. Smith led UCLA in scoring for the fourth time in five games. He scored nine of his game-high 15 points in the second half. UCLA limited Oregon State to 36.6 percent shooting from the field.
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WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME?
UCLA registered 13 steals in one game (versus Oregon State) for the first time since March 1, 2017, when the Bruins taliled 13 steals in a 98-66 win at home against Washington. Eight of UCLA's 10 players in the win at Oregon State finished with at least one steal. Jaime Jaquez Jr. had a season-best four steals.
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NOTES ON THE BRUINS
- UCLA has gone 10-0 this season when limiting the opposition to 73 points or fewer.
- Junior Chris Smith has averaged 15.5 points, 7.7 rebounds and 1.5 assists in the Bruins' six Pac-12 games.
- Freshman Jaime Jaquez Jr. (8.4 ppg, 4.4 rpg) has led the Bruins in scoring in three games this season.
- Sophomore Jalen Hill has averaged a team-leading 7.2 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 led the Pac-12 in rebounding margin (+7.05 rpg), through games played Friday, Jan. 24.
- UCLA has out-rebounded the opposition in 17 of 19 games this year (currently averaging 37.9 rebounds per game).
- Through games played Thursday, Jan. 23, UCLA ranked No. 26 in the nation in rebounding margin (+7.0).
- In addition, UCLA ranked No. 27 in the nation (through Thursday, Jan. 23) in offensive rebounds per game (12.9).
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UCLA'S LEADING SCORER
Junior guard Chris Smith enters the weekend as UCLA's leading scorer, having averaged 12.5 points and 5.4 rebounds per game in all 19 contests. Smith has posted career-high percentages this season in overall field goals (48.2%), 3-pointers (33.3%) and free throws (84.7%). In fact, he ranked fifth among Pac-12 players in free throw percentage through Friday, Jan. 24. Smith has scored more points (237) and made more shots (82) this season than he did in 33 games last year. Smith's 3-point field goal percentage and free throw percentage has improved at UCLA in each of his three seasons.
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DOUBLE-DOUBLES
Sophomore Jalen Hill ranks second on the team in scoring (9.6 ppg) and first in rebounding (7.2 rpg), entering Sunday's game at Oregon. The 6-foot-10 forward/center registered his fourth double-double of the season one week ago against Stanford (14 points, 12 rebounds). Hill has tallied seven double-doubles in his career. He has scored at least 11 points in three of the team's last four games and made four crucial free throws in the final moments of the win at Oregon State on Thursday night. Hill has twice scored at least 20 points in a game this year (including 24 against Hofstra on Nov. 21).
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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 375-180, entering Sunday afternoon's showdown versus Oregon at Matthew Knight Arena.
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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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UCLA'S LAST ROAD TRIP
Nearly three weeks ago, UCLA split a pair of games at Washington (W, 66-64) and Washington State (L, 79-71 in OT) to open Pac-12 play. In the 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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REBOUNDING MARGIN
UCLA will enter this Sunday's game with a rebounding margin of +7.05, which is the team's best such margin since 2007-08. That year, UCLA went 35-4 and advanced to the NCAA Final Four with a rebounding margin of +8.2. Over the past 30 seasons, UCLA has only had four teams post rebound margins of at least 6.0 or better. UCLA's 1995-96 squad recorded a rebounding margin of +6.0, and the Bruins' 1993-94 team had a rebounding margin of +7.7.
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SINGLETON FROM 3-POINT RANGE
Sophomore David Singleton currently ranks No. 5 on UCLA's career list for highest 3-point percentage (minimum of 100 career 3-point attempts). Singleton has made 43.1% of his career 3-point attempts (shooting 50 for 116) through 50 games. UCLA's all-time leader in that category is former four-year standout Pooh Richardson (52-for-112, 46.4%). Two years ago, Aaron Holiday concluded his three-year career at the No. 5 slot on the career list (180-427, 42.2%).
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FRESHMAN POINT GUARD
Tyger Campbell missed the entire 2018-19 season, as he recovered from a torn ACL in his left knee (sustained on Oct. 7, 2018, in practice). He enters this Sunday's game having averaged 7.2 points and 4.5 assists per game. Campbell has registered 85 assists and 34 turnovers, compiling the best assist-turnover ratio in the Pac-12 (2.5). Campbell has scored in double figures in six games this season. He recorded a career-high 18 points against Cal State Fullerton (Dec. 28).
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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 has led the Bruins in scoring in four of their past five games. Three weeks ago, freshman Jake Kyman registered his first-ever double-digit scoring effort with 21 points against Washington. He made 7 of 12 shots, all from 3-point distance, in the 66-64 win at Washington. Smith, who has averaged 12.5 points per game, has led the Bruins in scoring in eight of 19 games (no other player has led the team in scoring in that many games this year).
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FIFTH-YEAR SENIORS
Redshirt seniors Prince Ali (8.6 ppg, 2.8 rpg) and Alex Olesinski (1.5 ppg, 1.9 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 has out-rebounded the opposition in 17 of 19 games. The Bruins were out-rebounded earlier this month by USC (35-31) and California (35-33). USC became the first team this season (in UCLA's 16th game of the year) to have out-rebounded the Bruins. Sophomore Jalen Hill will enter the weekend as UCLA's leading rebounder (7.2 rpg). Hill ranks eighth among all Pac-12 players in rebounding. He has amassed a team-best 336 career rebounds.
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- ย The Bruins have two players, entering this Sunday's game, who have scored at least 500 career points (Prince Ali and Chris Smith). Ali has scored a team-best 818 career points in 106 games (averaging 7.7 points per game). Smith has registered 574 career points through 85 games (averaging 6.8 points per contest).
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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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- 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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- The Bruins' 50 points scored in a 50-40 win over California on Sunday, Jan. 19, marked UCLA's lowest point total in a victory since winning at Washington State (50-30) on Feb. 9, 2006. UCLA had not limited the opposition to 40 points (or fewer) since a 55-40 win over USC in the Pac-12 Tournament at Staples Center on March 7, 2012.
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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 63-9 when leading at halftime (spanning 121 games). During that span, the Bruins have gone 14-32 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 69-9. When trailing by 10 or more points in a game, UCLA has gone 10-35.
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STREAKING
UCLA has made at least one 3-pointer played in its last 676 games. That 3-point streak began after the Bruins went 0-for-14 from 3-point territory in a 78-63 loss at No. 2-ranked Stanford on Feb. 3, 2000 (Maples Pavilion). UCLA has made at least three 3-pointers in 220 of 226 games since the start of the 2013-14 season. The Bruins made a school single-game-record 19 three-pointers (on 31 attempts) at Colorado on Jan. 12, 2017. UCLA won that road game, 104-89.
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