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No. 19 Men's Basketball to Host Sacramento State on Tuesday
November 17, 2025 | Men's Basketball
LOS ANGELES – No. 19-ranked UCLA (3-1) will host Sacramento State (3-2) on Tuesday evening inside Pauley Pavilion presented by Wescom Financial. Game time is set for 7:30 p.m. (PT). This will mark the fourth all-time meeting between the Bruins and Sacramento State, with the most recent matchup having taken place in UCLA's season-opener in Nov. of 2022. This Tuesday's game will be broadcast on Big Ten Network, with J.B. Long and Don MacLean on the call. Fans can tune into all UCLA men's basketball games on the radio this season on AM 790 (KABC), as Josh Lewin and Tracy Murray will have the courtside call.
GAME INFORMATION
Venue: Pauley Pavilion presented by Wescom Financial
Capacity: 13,800
Tipoff Time: 7:37 p.m. (PT)
Television: Big Ten Network
TV Talent: J.B. Long (play-by-play), Don MacLean (analyst)
Radio (UCLA Audio Network): AM 790 (KABC)
Radio Talent: Josh Lewin (play-by-play), Tracy Murray (analyst)
Sirius XM Channels: SiriusXM 106 or 195, and on the SiriusXM App
Live Stats: ucla.statbroadcast.com (link here)
UCLA'S TICKET INFORMATION (HOME GAMES)
Single-game tickets for UCLA's home games are on sale. Fans can secure tickets to this week's two home games against Sacramento State (Tuesday, Nov. 18) and Presbyterian (Friday, Nov. 21). The Bruins have 16 remaining regular-season games inside Pauley Pavilion this season.
Complete ticket information about UCLA men's basketball is available here. Direct links to single-game ticket purchases can be viewed here. Fans can call (310) 206-5991 or email tickets@athletics.ucla.edu for more information. In addition, be sure to check out all of the game themes and upcoming promotions for the Bruins' 2025-26 season.
FOURS UP FRIDAY, TICKETS
Fans can purchase tickets through the "Fours Up Fridays" promotion, offering tickets starting at just $4 (per game) for two upcoming Friday home non-conference contests – vs. Presbyterian on Nov. 21, and against Cal Poly on Dec. 19. Fans can also purchase tickets in lower seat locations at $14, $24 and $40, respectively, for those basketball games. The "Fours Up Fridays" promotion can be accessed by clicking here.
THE LAST TIME OUT
• UCLA lost its first game of the season last Friday night, falling to No. 5-ranked Arizona by a 69-65 margin at Intuit Dome.
• The Bruins' all-time record against Arizona stands at 64-51, with a 7-7 record since the start of the 2019-20 season.
• Tyler Bilodeau scored 19 points (7-of-10 shooting) and was 3-for-4 for the Bruins from 3-point distance.
• The Bruins led 57-49 with under eight minutes to go and were outscored by Arizona, 20-8, over the final 7:15.
• Arizona led the Bruins, 28-25, at halftime after UCLA had opened the contest on a 15-5 scoring run.
• Arizona guard Anthony Dell'Orso scored a team-leading 20 points off the bench for the Wildcats (4-for-7 from 3-PT).
LOOKING AT THE BRUINS
• Tyler Bilodeau has averaged a team-leading 17.0 points per game in the Bruins' first four contests (55.3 FG-pct.).
• Donovan Dent (14.7 ppg) leads UCLA with 21 assists in three games, and has shot 11-for-14 at the free throw stripe.
• Xavier Booker has averaged 10.8 points and a team-leading 6.3 rebounds, shoot 17-for-25 from the field (68.0%)
• As a team, UCLA has limited four opponents to an average of 67.0 points per game.
• UCLA enters this Tuesday's game with five players having averaged at least 10 points per game.
THE WEEK AHEAD
• UCLA has compiled an all-time record of 3-0 against Sacramento State (last meeting was the season opener in 2022).
• In three previous games against Sacramento State, the Bruins have never surrendered more than 56 points.
• The Bruins will host Presbyterian this Friday before playing California at Chase Center in San Francisco, next Tuesday.
• Jaylen Clark recorded 17 points and seven steals against Sacramento State in the meeting on Nov. 7, 2022.
• UCLA last faced Presbyterian on Nov. 19, 2018, in the only previous matchup (UCLA won that game, 80-65).
KEY NOTES ABOUT UCLA
• The Bruins have returned four of their primary contributors from last season's squad. In addition, UCLA has welcomed back two redshirt players and has brought in five transfers. Three of UCLA's top four scorers from last year's squad have returned in seniors Tyler Bilodeau (13.5 ppg) and Skyy Clark (8.5 ppg) and junior Eric Dailey Jr. (11.4 ppg).
• UCLA's five incoming transfer students include Xavier Booker (from Michigan State), Jamar Brown (from UMKC), Donovan Dent (from New Mexico), Steven Jamerson II (from San Diego) and Anthony Peoples Jr. (from North Carolina Central). Last season, Dent secured honorable mention All-America acclaim at New Mexico (averaged 20.4 ppg, 6.4 apg).
• Tyler Bilodeau and Skyy Clark served as UCLA's student-athlete representatives at Big Ten Media Day in Chicago, along with head coach Mick Cronin, on Thursday, Oct. 9. Bilodeau led the Bruins in 3-point percentage last season, knocking down 40.0 percent of his long-range attempts (38/95). Clark was second in 3-point percentage last year, making 48 of 121 attempts (39.7 percent). Clark shot 43.3 percent (29-for-67) from 3-point range in the team's final 15 games.
• Donovan Dent (point guard), Eric Dailey Jr. (small forward) and Tyler Bilodeau (power forward) have each been named to 20-person positional watch lists at the start of the season. Dent is on the Bob Cousy Award watch list, while Dailey Jr. has been tabbed to the Julius Erving Award watch list, and Tyler Bilodeau to the Karl Malone Award watch list.
• Senior Donovan Dent totaled 224 assists while at New Mexico last season, averaging 6.4 assists per game (which ranked second in the Mountain West Conference and No. 13 in the nation). Senior Skyy Clark registered 91 assists in 34 games for the Bruins last season, averaging 2.7 assists per game. He posted a team-leading 2.4 assist-turnover ratio as a junior.
• Last season, UCLA went 12-5 over the final 17 games after a four-game losing streak in early-to-mid January. Following losses at Maryland and Rutgers on Jan. 10 and Jan. 13, UCLA won seven consecutive games (five of those at home). The Bruins produced a 15-2 record at home and went 8-9 in 17 games played on the road or at neutral-site venues.
• For the fourth consecutive season (last season), UCLA led its conference in scoring defense. The Bruins averaged 65.2 points allowed per game in 34 contests, which ranked No. 22 in the nation. UCLA led all Big Ten teams in scoring defense, finishing the year just ahead of Michigan State (67.1 ppg) and Maryland (67.2 ppg) in the scoring defense category.
• Coach Cronin secured career victory No. 500 in the Bruins' 69-61 win over Ohio State in Pauley Pavilion presented by Wescom Financial on Sunday, Feb. 23. Cronin helped UCLA to three more wins in 2024-25, pushing his career win total up to 503. He currently leads all coaches nationwide, age 55 and younger, in total NCAA Division I victories (506).
• Through games played from 2010-11 through 2024-25, Coach Cronin is tied for the fifth-most victories of any NCAA Division I coach (373 wins in a 15-year span). He's tied on that list with Michigan State's Tom Izzo (373 wins) and trails Mark Few of Gonzaga (451), Bill Self of Kansas (426), John Calipari of Arkansas (397) and Randy Bennett of Saint Mary's (379).
FIVE OR MORE BLOCKS
Junior forward/center Xavier Booker became UCLA's first player with at least five blocks in a game since Aday Mara registered five blocks last season in an NCAA Tournament win over Utah State (March 20, 2025, in Lexington, Ky.). Booker had 15 points and five blocks on Friday, Nov. 7, in the Bruins' 74-63 win against Pepperdine. He became the Bruins' first player with at least 15 points, five rebounds and five blocked shots in a game since Dec. 30, 2023, when then-sophomore Adem Bona registered 15 points, 11 rebounds and five blocks in a 64-59 loss at Oregon in a Pac-12 contest.
STRONG PERCENTAGES
Senior forward Tyler Bilodeau has shot 55.3 percent from the field, making 26 of 47 attempts, through UCLA's first four games. The 6-foot-9 product from Kennewick, Wash., has made 7 of 16 attempts from 3-point range (43.8%) and has gone 9 for 11 from the free throw line. Bilodeau has made at least four shots in each of the team's four games. Most recently, he shot 7-for-10 in a loss to No. 5-ranked Arizona last Friday, knocking down 3 of 4 shots from 3-point distance. He enters this week's two home games having shot 50.4 percent in his career (overall) and 36.6 percent from 3-point range.
WELCOME BACK ERIC
Junior guard/forward Eric Dailey Jr. has returned to the Bruins' rotation after missing the season opener (left knee). Since making his debut this season in a win over Pepperdine (Nov. 7), Dailey Jr. has shot 56.5 percent overall (13-for-23) and a team-leading 60 percent from 3-point distance (6-for-10). Dailey Jr. has averaged 12.3 points and 4.0 rebounds in three games (three starts), including a 13-point and five-rebound effort last Friday night at Intuit Dome against No. 5-ranked Arizona. Dailey Jr. was 5-for-10 from the field against Arizona and made 3 of 5 shots from 3-point range.
SKYY'S THE LIMIT
UCLA's Skyy Clark closed his junior season with a team-leading 2.4 assist-turnover ratio, through all 34 games (91 assists, 38 turnovers). He joined the Bruins' program in the summer of 2024 after having averaged a team-leading 13.2 points per game as a sophomore at Louisville in 2023-24. Clark finished with UCLA's third-highest assist total (91) and scored at least 10 points in 13 games during his junior season. He shot 45.8 percent from the field and 39.7 percent from beyond the 3-point arc. In a pair of NCAA Tournament games, he averaged 16.0 points and shot 10-for-19 from the field.
RUNNING THE POINT
Senior Donovan Dent transferred from New Mexico to UCLA in the offseason and has averaged 14.7 points and 7.0 assists through three games with the Bruins. Hailing from nearby Riverside, Calif., Dent scored 21 points and dished nine assists in his debut as a Bruin in an 80-74 win over Eastern Washington (Nov. 3). He finished last Friday's game with 11 points, eight assists and three rebounds as the Bruins absorbed a 69-65 loss to No. 5-ranked Arizona. Through 107 career games, Dent has scored at least 10 points in 70 contests and has registered 10 or more assists in seven career games.
TOP DEFENDERS
The Bruins' program has produced some of the nation's most talented defensive players over the past several seasons. Last year, then-senior Kobe Johnson was honored as one of five players on the Big Ten All-Defensive Team, closing the year at No. 6 in the conference in steals per game (1.6 spg, 55 steals in 34 games). Two seasons ago (2023-24), then-sophomore Adem Bona was honored as the Pac-12 Conference's Defensive Player of the Year. Bona led UCLA's team that season in blocks (58 blocks, 1.8 bpg) and was second in steals (37 steals, 1.1 spg). Three seasons ago (2022-23), then-junior Jaylen Clark was honored as the Naismith Men's Defensive Player of the Year and the NABC Defensive Player of the Year.
GLANCING AT UCLA'S SCHEDULE
The Bruins 31-game regular-season schedule began with an 80-74 win against Eastern Washington on Monday, Nov. 3. In all, UCLA's 31-game slate includes 18 home games, 10 road contests and three neutral-site games (in November and December). The Bruins' first true road contest will take place at Big Ten foe Washington, the night of Wednesday, Dec. 3. In addition, UCLA has two neutral-site contests on deck in the next month, at Chase Center in San Francisco (vs. California) and at Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle (vs. Gonzaga).
NOTES ON PAULEY PAVILION
The Bruins went 15-2 in Pauley Pavilion last season, UCLA's 59th campaign playing in the longtime basketball venue. The first game in Pauley took place on Dec. 3, 1965, as No. 1 UCLA defeated Ohio State, 92-66. UCLA spent 47 seasons in Pauley Pavilion before the venue was closed for an 18-month renovation (closed in March of 2011). UCLA hosted 18 home games in 2011-12 at the Los Angeles Sports Arena (14 games) near downtown L.A. and at the Honda Center in Anaheim (four games). UCLA returned home in Nov. 2012. This season marks the 14th year in the arena's updated configuration.
In 2023-24, CSUN snapped UCLA's 29-home-game winning streak with a 76-72 win over the Bruins (Dec. 19, 2023). Prior to that game, UCLA hadn't lost at home since an overtime setback (84-81) to Oregon on Jan. 13, 2022. UCLA's 29-game home streak had been the longest active streak in the country. Since taking over as UCLA's head coach prior to the 2019-20 season, Mick Cronin has guided the Bruins to an 82-15 record in 97 home games (84.5% win percentage).
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES ON UCLA
• Four games into the Bruins' regular-season schedule, UCLA has shot 46.8 percent overall and 77.1 percent at the free throw stripe (54-for-70). The Bruins have compiled 66 assists and 45 turnovers, logging an assist-turnover ratio of 1.47. Seven players for UCLA has recorded at least two steals, through four games (Skyy Clark has a team-best six steals).
• UCLA was among eight programs from the 18-team Big Ten to advance to last season's NCAA Tournament (along with No. 2-seed Michigan State, No. 3-seed Wisconsin, No. 4-seed Purdue, No. 4-seed Maryland, No. 5-seed Michigan, No. 5-seed Oregon and No. 6-seed Illinois. The Bruins entered the tournament last March as the No. 7 seed in the Midwest Region.
• The Bruins' 15-man roster this season includes eight student-athletes who are from the Southern California region. All 15 student-athletes are from the United States. Looking at the eight local players, five are from Los Angeles County and three are from Riverside County (Donovan Dent, Eric Freeny and Anthony Peoples Jr. all went to Corona Centennial HS).
• UCLA has two student-athletes who were on the roster in 2022-23 (Evan Manjikian, Jack Seidler) and three players who were on the roster in 2023-24 (Manjikian, Seidler and Brandon Williams). Four of UCLA's most prominent contributors, in Tyler Bilodeau, Skyy Clark, Eric Dailey Jr. and Trent Perry, are back from last year's team.
• Last season, UCLA's assist-turnover ratio (1.55-to-1) ranked No. 20 in the nation and second in the Big Ten. The Bruins concluded the year with an assist-turnover ratio of 1.55, but posted a ratio of 1.81 in the team's final 15 games.
• Since the start of the 2020-21 season, the Bruins have gone 69-30 in conference play (logging a 69.7 win percentage). UCLA went 10-10 in Pac-12 play in 2023-24 after having won the league title (18-2 record) during the 2022-23 season.
CONSECUTIVE THREE-POINTERS
UCLA has made at least one 3-pointer in each of its last 68 games. The Bruins went 0-for-6 from long range in a 78-58 win against Long Island University early in the 2023-24 season in Pauley Pavilion (on Nov. 15, 2023). That game snapped a streak of 792 consecutive contests with at least one made 3-pointer by UCLA. That 3-point streak began after the Bruins finished 0-for-14 from 3-point distance in a home loss to No. 2 Stanford (78-63) on Feb. 3, 2000. The Bruins' single-game 3-point record stands at 19 made 3-pointers (going 19-for-31) in an 104-89 win at Colorado on Jan. 12, 2017.
