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No. 25 UCLA to Face No. 8 Gonzaga in Seattle on Saturday
December 10, 2025 | Men's Basketball
LOS ANGELES – No. 25 UCLA returns to action in Seattle this Saturday evening, taking on No. 8 Gonzaga at 8:30 p.m. (PT). This Saturday's game will take place at a neutral site (Climate Pledge Arena), marking the sixth straight season in which UCLA will have faced Gonzaga. This Saturday's game will be nationally broadcast by ESPN, with Dave Flemming and Sean Farnham on the call. Fans can listen to the Bruins' radio broadcast on AM 790 (KLAC). Last week, UCLA opened its Big Ten Conference schedule with wins against Washington (Dec. 3) and Oregon (Dec. 6).
GAME INFORMATION
Venue: Climate Pledge Arena (Seattle, Wash.)
Capacity: 18,300
Tipoff Time: 8:30 p.m. (PT)
Television: ESPN (watch here)
TV Talent: Dave Flemming (play-by-play), Sean Farnham (analyst)
Radio (UCLA Audio Network): AM 790 (KABC)
Radio Talent: Josh Lewin (play-by-play), Tracy Murray (analyst)
Sirius XM Channels: SiriusXM 117 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. The Bruins have 12 remaining regular-season games inside Pauley Pavilion this season, including next Wednesday night's home contest against Arizona State (Wednesday, Dec. 17). 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.
LAST WEEK'S VICTORIES
• The Bruins opened their Big Ten Conference schedule with wins against Washington (road) and Oregon (home).
• Through Tuesday's games, UCLA ranked No. 3 among Big Ten teams in scoring defense (65.0 points per game).
• In both games last week, Skyy Clark averaged 19.0 points and shot 9-for-13 (69.2%) from 3-point distance.
• Tyler Bilodeau averaged 17.5 points and 6.5 rebounds in the Bruins' two Big Ten wins.
• Through both contests, UCLA trailed for less than 13 total minutes (at Washington, home vs. Oregon).
BRUINS VS. BULLDOGS
• UCLA has faced Gonzaga in each of the past five seasons, with two of those games taking place in the NCAA Tournament.
• Last December, UCLA defeated Gonzaga, 65-62, before a crowd of 12,272 at Intuit Dome in Inglewood, Calif.
• Two seasons ago, Gonzaga edged the Bruins in Honolulu, 69-65, playing in the final game of the Maui Invitational.
• UCLA first faced Gonzaga during the 1999-00 season, with Gonzaga securing a 59-43 win in Los Angeles.
• In 10 total matchups, UCLA and Gonzaga have faced off in the NCAA Tournament four times.
• Three of UCLA's past contests against Gonzaga have taken place at campus sites (twice at UCLA, once at Gonzaga).
LOOKING AT THE BRUINS
• Six Bruins have averaged at least nine points per game this season, led by Tyler Bilodeau (15.6 ppg).
• Donovan Dent (11.9 ppg) leads UCLA with 51 assists, averaging 6.4 assists per game (No. 3 in the Big Ten).
• Skyy Clark ranks second on the team in scoring (12.7 ppg) and second in the Big Ten in 3-point percentage (51.4%).
• Donovan Dent has been named to national Player of the Year watch lists by the NABC and for the Wooden Award.
• Tyler Bilodeau (88.9%) and Skyy Clark (86.4%) have both shot at least 80 percent this season at the free throw line.
• UCLA has four players currently averaging at least 4.0 rebounds per game (led by Eric Dailey Jr. at 5.125 rpg).
GUARD PLAY
• Both Skyy Clark (12.7 ppg) and Donovan Dent (12.0 ppg) are averaging double figures in scoring this season.
• Donovan Dent (6.4 apg) and Trent Perry (2.5 apg) rank first and second on the team in assists per game.
• Donovan Dent, Skyy Clark, Trent Perry and Jamar Brown have accounted for 49.6 percent of UCLA's total points.
• Jaylen Hands is the most recent UCLA player (14.2 ppg, 6.1 apg) to average at least 10.0 ppg and 6.0 apg in a season.
• Skyy Clark (13 steals) and Donovan Dent (11 steals) rank first and second on the team, respectively, in total steals.
WHAT'S AHEAD?
• Following this Saturday's contest, the Bruins will host three consecutive non-conference games from Dec. 17-23.
• All four of UCLA's remaining December contests include opponents from the West Coast.
• Next week (Dec. 17), the Bruins will host Arizona State in Pauley Pavilion for the first time since March of 2024.
• The Bruins will close their 2025 calendar year with home games against Cal Poly (Dec. 19) and UC Riverside (Dec. 23).
• Big Ten play will resume for UCLA in early January, with a road trip to face Iowa (Jan. 3) and Wisconsin (Jan. 6).
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 last season) 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).
• 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.
• 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.
• Through games played from 2010-11 through 2024-25, Coach Cronin was 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).
STRONG SCORING
Senior forward Tyler Bilodeau has shot 52.1 percent from the field (38-for-73), through seven games. The 6-foot-9 product from Kennewick, Wash., scored 16 consecutive points for UCLA early in the second half of last week's Big Ten win at Washington. From the 18:05 mark of the second half through the 14-minute mark, Bilodeau registered 16 points on six made shots and three free throws (all from and-one opportunities). He totaled 21 points in the game at Washington and, three days later, he registered 14 points and eight rebounds in UCLA's 74-63 win at home against Oregon.
YEAR TWO WITH ERIC DAILEY JR.
Junior guard/forward Eric Dailey Jr. has averaged 11.8 points, 5.1 rebounds and 1.6 assists per game, shooting 54.0 percent from the field. He made his season debut in a win over Pepperdine (Nov. 7), and has shot 44.4 percent from 3-point distance (12-for-27). Dailey Jr., who played in 33 of UCLA's 34 games as a sophomore last season, had a 15-point and 10-rebound effort against Sacramento State on Tuesday, Nov. 18. Dailey Jr. has totaled four career double-doubles – two at UCLA, and two during his freshman season at Oklahoma State (2023-24).
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.
SKYY IS THE LIMIT
Senior Skyy Clark has averaged 12.7 points and 2.7 rebounds through nine games. He joined the Bruins' program in the summer of 2024 after having averaged a team-leading 13.2 points per game at Louisville in 2023-24. Clark averaged 19.0 points and 2.5 rebounds in the Bruins' two wins last week. He scored 25 points at Washington on Wednesday, Dec. 3, connecting on 6 of 7 shots from 3-point range. He became UCLA's first player to have made six or more 3-pointers in a game since Dylan Andrews shot 7-for-9 from long-range against Oregon State in the Pac-12 Tournament in 2024.
RUNNING THE POINT
Senior Donovan Dent transferred from New Mexico to UCLA in the offseason and has averaged 12.0 points and 6.4 assists through eight games with the Bruins. Hailing from nearby Riverside, Calif., Dent scored 17 points and dished eight assists in the Bruins' 82-80 win at Washington on Wednesday, Dec. 3. Through games played on Tuesday, Dec. 10, Dent ranked third among all Big Ten players in assists per game (6.4 apg). Through 112 career games, Dent has scored at least 10 points in 73 contests and has registered 10 or more assists in seven career games.
FEARLESS REBOUNDER
Fifth-year senior Jamar Brown, who spent the past two seasons excelling at UMKC (Missouri Kansas City), has averaged 6.2 points and 4.4 rebounds in nine games. Brown's per-40-minute rebounding average currently equals 8.76 per game, with 40 total rebounds in 20.1 minutes per game. He ranks third on the team in total rebounds (40), behind Xavier Booker (46) and Eric Dailey Jr. (41). Brown led UMKC in scoring and rebounding in each of the past two seasons at UMKC. He enters this Saturday's game in Seattle, Wash., having shot 44.2 percent from the field (19-for-43).
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.
NOTES ON PAULEY PAVILION
This marks UCLA's 60th season playing basketball at Pauley Pavilion. Last year, the Bruins went 15-2 in Pauley Pavilion. 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. Since taking over as UCLA's head coach prior to 2019-20, Mick Cronin has guided the Bruins to an 85-15 home record (85.0% win percentage).
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES ON UCLA
• UCLA has shot 50.0 percent or better in two games this season -- 62.7 percent in a win over Presbyterian (Nov. 21) and 52.8 in a victory at Washington (Dec. 3). The shooting percentage against Presbyterian earlier this season was the Bruins' best single-game mark 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.
• Senior guard Donovan Dent has averaged 6.4 assists per game in eight 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).
• 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 71-30 in conference play (logging a 70.3 win percentage). UCLA went 13-7 in Big Ten play last season, tied for fourth place in the 18-team league standings.
CONSECUTIVE THREE-POINTERS
UCLA has made at least one 3-pointer in each of its last 73 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.
