Sunday, May 17

Around the League: Men’s basketball heats up before postseason, Pac-12 teams stay in top 25

Men’s basketballTuAnh Dam, Sports editor Just one week left until postseason play begins and every team is trying to get one last good impression in before Selection Sunday. Read more...

Photo: Jovan Vavic, the head coach of both men’s and women’s water polo at USC, recently beat Stanford in the championship game of the Barbara Kalbus Invitational. (Jintak Han/Assistant Photo editor)


Careless errors cost UCLA baseball game against Cal State Northridge

The Bruins played one very bad inning Tuesday. UCLA baseball (4-3) let in four runs and committed two errors in the sixth, resulting in a 6-5 road loss to Cal State Northridge (4-4) Tuesday afternoon. Read more...

Photo: Sean Bouchard went three for three with a home run and a walk in Tuesday’s loss to Cal State Northridge. On the season, the junior first baseman is batting .478 with a slugging percentage of 1.000. (Isabelle Roy/Daily Bruin senior staff)


Kelsey O’Brien reflects on water polo journey from hometown to UCLA

When Kelsey O’Brien, a senior attacker on the UCLA women’s water polo team, first walked onto UCLA’s campus, she was 11 years old. She had a cousin who went to UCLA at the time so Kelsey and her father, Joe O’Brien, stopped by to visit after a water polo tournament. Read more...

Photo: Senior attacker Kelsey O’Brien won five Junior Olympic titles with the Santa Barbara Water Polo Club before she came to UCLA. She has deep connections with UC Santa Barbara’s water polo team, but committed to Westwood instead. (Aubrey Yeo/Daily Bruin senior staff)


Matchup against Washington to test UCLA’s rebounding improvements

In theory, Wednesday’s matchup with Washington should be a cakewalk for the UCLA men’s basketball team. The Bruins are simply better on both ends of the floor, and the Huskies’ star freshman point guard Markelle Fultz is questionable with a sore knee. Read more...

Photo: Freshman forward T.J. Leaf and UCLA outrebounded Arizona 35-28 in their road victory Saturday, representing a major turnaround from the teams’ previous matchup in January. (Aubrey Yeo/Daily Bruin senior staff)


UCLA baseball gears up for year’s first road matchup, exhibition game

The Bruins have a busy week. Busier than usual. After taking two out of three games against Gonzaga last weekend, UCLA baseball (4-2) will play Cal State Northridge (3-4) on Tuesday and the Korea Baseball Organization’s NC Dinos on Wednesday in an exhibition game. Read more...

Photo: Justin Hooper will make his first start of the season Tuesday. The sophomore lefty has made two impressive relief appearances, holding opposing batters to a .111 average so far in 2017. (Austin Yu/Daily Bruin senior staff)


The Rundown: Feb. 28

Check out a breakdown of the UCLA sports stories you might have missed this week. Men’s water polo After the first weekend of competition, two teams from USA Water Polo’s National League have jumped out to undefeated starts. Read more...

Photo: 2016 scoring leader Patrick Fellner led the Olympic Club in its game against the Los Angeles Athletic Club with three goals in regulation and the game-winning five-meter after the game went to penalty shots. USA Water Polo’s National League resumes play in Irvine two weeks from now. (Austin Yu/Daily Bruin senior staff)


Women’s tennis grapples with maintaining late-game momentum

Ball-for-ball and stroke-for-stroke, No. 9 UCLA women’s tennis was right in the matches against No. 12 Pepperdine and No. 18 California this weekend. But each time, the Bruins (6-3) were unable to close out their games, dropping them 5-2 and 6-1 respectively. Read more...

Photo: Freshman Ena Shibahara dropped her first singles match in dual-play this season in a UCLA loss to Cal. Shibahara pinpointed her serving and aggressive playing as key to closing out future close matches. (Wesley Hardin/Daily Bruin)