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Men's Basketball Back in Action at Washington on Wednesday
November 30, 2025 | Men's Basketball
LOS ANGELES โ UCLA (5-2) returns to action with a Big Ten matchup at Washington (5-2) on Wednesday night in Seattle. Game time at Washington's Alaska Airlines Arena is set for 8 p.m. (PT). The Bruins' contest at Washington will be nationally televised by Big Ten Network, with Aaron Goldsmith and Don MacLean on the call. Last season, UCLA won both of its regular-season showdowns against Washington. In addition to this week's road contest against Washington, the Bruins will be back in Pauley Pavilion on Saturday to face Oregon (Saturday, Dec. 6, at 3 p.m. PT).
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GAME INFORMATION
Venue: Alaska Airlines Arena (Seattle)
Capacity: 9,268
Tipoff Time: 8:10 p.m. (PT)
Television: Big Ten Network
TV Talent: Aaron Goldsmith (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 85, and on the SiriusXM App
Live Stats: ucla.statbroadcast.com (link here)
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UCLA'S TICKET INFORMATION (HOME GAMES)
Single-game tickets for UCLA's home games are on sale. The Bruins have 14 remaining regular-season games inside Pauley Pavilion this season. Up next, at home, UCLA will host Oregon in a Big Ten Conference matchup on Saturday, Dec. 6, at 3 p.m. (PT). Fans can view complete ticket information about UCLA men's basketball by clicking 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 this season.
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THE PAST WEEK
โข The Bruins dropped an 80-72 decision to California at Chase Center in San Francisco on Tuesday, Nov. 25.
โข Through Saturday's games, UCLA ranked No. 4ย among Big Ten teams in scoring defense (63.1 points per game).
โข Trent Perry and Eric Dailey Jr. each scored a team-leading 17 points in the Bruins' loss to California on Nov. 25.
โข UCLA led California at halftime, 41-36, and was out-scored by a 44-31 margin in the second half.
โข As a team, UCLA shot 40.6 percent from the field and 31.8 percent from beyond the 3-point arc against California.
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BRUINS VS. HUSKIES
โข UCLA has compiled an all-time record of 110-44 against Washington in a series that began in 1937.
โข The Bruins have won 11 of their last 12 matchups against Washington, dating back to January of 2020.
โข Last season, UCLA secured a 65-60 victory at Washington on Jan. 24, 2025.
โข Washington will return to Los Angeles to face UCLA in Pauley Pavilion later this season, on Saturday, Feb. 7.
โข Washington's 94-77 win over the Bruins on Feb. 29, 2024, snapped UCLA's nine-game win streak over the Huskies.
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LOOKING AT THE BRUINS
โข Six Bruins have averaged 10.0 points or more per game this season (led by Tyler Bilodeau, at 14.8 points per game).
โข Donovan Dent (11.0 ppg) leads UCLA with 40 assists in six games, averaging 6.7 assists per contest (which ranks No. 3 in the Big Ten).ย
โข Xavier Booker has averaged 10.6 points and 5.4 rebounds per game (Booker has shot 65.2% from the field).
โข Donovan Dent has been named to national Player of the Year watch lists by the NABC and for the Wooden Award.
โข Eric Dailey Jr. has averaged 12.7 points and a team-leading 5.5 rebounds per game in six contests.
โข Skyy Clark and Eric Dailey Jr. have each made a team-best 10 three-pointers through UCLA's first seven games.
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WHAT'S AHEAD?
โข Following this Wednesday's game, the Bruins will host Oregon on Saturday, Dec. 6.
โข UCLA's six-game schedule in December includes six opponents from the West Coast.
โข The Bruins will play four of their six December games in Pauley Pavilion.
โข UCLA's matchup against No. 12 Gonzaga in Seattle will take place at Climate Pledge Arena on Saturday, Dec. 13.
โข UCLA will close the 2025 calendar year with three home games in a seven-day stretch, from Dec. 17-23.
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KEY NOTES ABOUT UCLA
โข 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 last season) and Skyy Clark (8.5 ppg) and junior Eric Dailey Jr. (11.4 ppg).
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โข 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).
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โข 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.
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โข 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.
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โข 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.
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โข 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 (508).
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โข 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).
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LOW PERCENTAGE
Sacramento State shot 24.1 percent in a game on Nov. 18, 2025,ย tied for the seventh-lowest opposing team's field goal percentage (24.1%) in a contest against UCLA since Dec. 1970. UCLA limited Mississippi Valley State to 19.7 percent shooting in a first-round NCAA Tournament game played at Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif., on March 20, 2008.
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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 at home versus 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.
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YEAR TWO WITH ERIC DAILEY JR.
Junior guard/forward Eric Dailey Jr. 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 54.9 percent overall (28-for-51) and 45.5 percent from 3-point distance (10-for-22). Dailey Jr. has averaged 12.7 points and 5.5 rebounds in six games (six starts), including a 15-point and 10-rebound effort on Tuesday, Nov. 18, against Sacramento State. Dailey Jr. has totaled four career double-doubles โ two at UCLA, and two during his freshman season at Oklahoma State (2023-24).
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STRONG PERCENTAGES
Senior forward Tyler Bilodeau has shot 52.9 percent from the field, making 27 of 52 attempts, through five games. The 6-foot-9 product from Kennewick, Wash., has made 7 of 17 attempts from 3-point range (41.2%) and has gone 13 for 15 from the free throw line. Over three weeks ago on a Friday evening at Intuit Dome in nearby Inglewood, Bilodeau shot 7-for-10 in a loss to No. 5-ranked Arizona. He knocked down 3 of 4 shots from 3-point distance. Bilodeau, who missed UCLA's past two games with a left knee sprain, has shot 50.2 percent in his career and 36.4 percent from 3-point range.
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SKYY IS THE LIMIT
Senior Skyy Clark has averaged 10.9 points and 2.7 rebounds through seven games. 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. Last season, Clark finished with UCLA's third-highest assist total (91) and scored at least 10 points in 13 games during his junior season. As a junior in 2024-25, 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.
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RUNNING THE POINT
Senior Donovan Dent transferred from New Mexico to UCLA in the offseason and has averaged 11.0 points and 6.7 assists through six 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). Through games played on Friday, Nov. 28, Dent ranked third among all Big Ten players in assists per game (6.7 apg). Through 110 career games, Dent has scored at least 10 points in 71 contests and has registered 10 or more assists in seven career games.
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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.
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GLANCING AT UCLA'S SCHEDULE
The Bruins 31-game schedule opened with an 80-74 win against Eastern Washington on Nov. 3. In all, the 31-game slate includes 18 home games, 10 road contests and three neutral-site games (two of those neutral contest have already taken place). UCLA's first true road contest will take place at Washington on Wednesday, Dec. 3. In addition, UCLA has one neutral-site contest on deck in mid-December. The Bruins will head north to face Gonzaga at Climate Pledge Arena (in Seattle) on Saturday, Dec. 13. UCLA's game time against Gonzaga is set for 8:30 p.m. (PT).
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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.
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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. Since taking over as UCLA's head coach prior to 2019-20, Mick Cronin has guided the Bruins to an 84-15 home record (84.8% win percentage).
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MISCELLANEOUS NOTES ON UCLA
โข UCLA shot a season-best 62.7 percent from the field (32-of-51) in an 86-46 win over Presbyterian on Friday, Nov. 21. That marked UCLA's best single-game shooting percentage since making 62.7 percent of its shots against Michigan in an 102-84 win in Pauley Pavilion on Dec. 10, 2016. The Bruins shot 39-of-58 in that victory against Michigan in 2016.
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โข Senior guard Donovan Dent has averaged 6.7 assists per game, through his first six contests this season. Since assists were routinely recorded at UCLA, starting in 1973-74, only three student-athletes have logged at least 7.0 assists per game in one season (Pooh Richardson, twice, as well as Lonzo Ball in 2016-17 and Larry Drew II in 2012-13).
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โข 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).
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โข 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.
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โข 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.
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โข 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.
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MINUTES DISTRIBUTION
No players on UCLA's roster in 2024-25 averaged more than 30 minutes per game. Last season, then-senior Kobe Johnson led the team in minutes played, averaging 29.0 minutes per game. Since UCLA began recording minutes in 1978-79, the Bruins have always had at least one player average 30.0 or more minutes per game, by the end of the year. In 2019-20, then-freshman Tyger Campbell finished the year as the Bruins' leader in minutes per game (30.0 mpg).
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ADDITIONAL NOTES ON COACH MICK CRONIN
โข Head coach Mick Cronin has guided the program to an overall mark of 143-66, now in his seventh year at UCLA.
โข In four NCAA Tournament trips, Coach Cronin has led the Bruins to a 10-4 record.
โข Coach Cronin earned Pac-12 Coach of the Year honors in 2020 (his first year at UCLA) and 2023 (his fourth year).
โข Coach Cronin has led his teams to at least 20 wins in 15 of 22 previous seasons as a college head coach.
โข Coach Cronin's teams have averaged 24.9 victories per season over the last 15 years (2010-11 through 2024-25).
โข Coach Cronin has twice led his teams to 31 victories (2022-23 at UCLA, and in 2017-18 at Cincinnati).
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CONSECUTIVE THREE-POINTERS
UCLA has made at least one 3-pointer in each of its last 71 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.
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