It's May 28, 2024, 04:49:27 AM
LOL. It's funny how people automatically expect UCLA to lose...Now basketball ain't the only thing UCLA is ownin' USC in.
basketballThe last time the rest of the country looked in on UCLA, the Bruins played their way into the national championship game with defense. They needed a big dose of it Saturday.The Bruins survived their first serious challenge at No. 1 with late-game defensive stops in a 65-62 win over No. 6 Texas A&M in the John R. Wooden Classic."That was two teams fighting at it pretty hard," Aggies coach Billy Gillispie said. "A lot of mistakes made, but a lot of big-time plays."Josh Shipp scored 18 points and foul-plagued Arron Afflalo had eight of his 13 over the final nine minutes for the Bruins (8-0). Darren Collison added 15 points, but had six of the team's 13 turnovers."They came off a loss to LSU, so we knew we were going to get their best shot," Shipp said.Acie Law scored 21 points for Texas A&M (7-2), which controlled the boards 34-23 and outshot UCLA in the second half. Dominique Kirk added 12 points for the Aggies and Joseph Jones had 11 points and 13 rebounds."They stepped it up a little bit and they made plays and we didn't," Law said. "The last five minutes we were in position to win, but we didn't."UCLA forced 20 turnovers that led to 22 points."It was like we couldn't dribble the ball past one defender at halfcourt," Gillispie said. "Those exchanges are the ones that killed us."Texas A&M came into the game leading the country in field-goal percentage defense, holding opponents to 32.2 percent. Both teams shot 25-of-51 (49 percent) in the nationally televised matchup of uptempo, defensive-minded teams that didn't feature any major scoring runs."The intensity was going to remain high as long as the score was tight," Afflalo said. "Neither team got a chance to pull away."
Quote from: LAKERS_FAN89 on December 10, 2006, 12:07:43 AMbasketballThe last time the rest of the country looked in on UCLA, the Bruins played their way into the national championship game with defense. They needed a big dose of it Saturday.The Bruins survived their first serious challenge at No. 1 with late-game defensive stops in a 65-62 win over No. 6 Texas A&M in the John R. Wooden Classic."That was two teams fighting at it pretty hard," Aggies coach Billy Gillispie said. "A lot of mistakes made, but a lot of big-time plays."Josh Shipp scored 18 points and foul-plagued Arron Afflalo had eight of his 13 over the final nine minutes for the Bruins (8-0). Darren Collison added 15 points, but had six of the team's 13 turnovers."They came off a loss to LSU, so we knew we were going to get their best shot," Shipp said.Acie Law scored 21 points for Texas A&M (7-2), which controlled the boards 34-23 and outshot UCLA in the second half. Dominique Kirk added 12 points for the Aggies and Joseph Jones had 11 points and 13 rebounds."They stepped it up a little bit and they made plays and we didn't," Law said. "The last five minutes we were in position to win, but we didn't."UCLA forced 20 turnovers that led to 22 points."It was like we couldn't dribble the ball past one defender at halfcourt," Gillispie said. "Those exchanges are the ones that killed us."Texas A&M came into the game leading the country in field-goal percentage defense, holding opponents to 32.2 percent. Both teams shot 25-of-51 (49 percent) in the nationally televised matchup of uptempo, defensive-minded teams that didn't feature any major scoring runs."The intensity was going to remain high as long as the score was tight," Afflalo said. "Neither team got a chance to pull away."UCLA looking really good this year. going to be fun watching the arizona/ucla match ups
^^^This topic was about UCLA FOOTBALL, not basketball