A former nightmare has thus far turned into a dream for the UCLA men’s basketball team. At the end of the first half, UCLA leads No. Read more...
Photo: UCLA’s defense held Kentucky to 29 points in the first half, the Wildcats’ lowest total of the season. (Aubrey Yeo/Daily Bruin staff)
The UCLA swimmers and divers, although one team, will separate for a weekend, competing with more than a thousand miles between them. For both groups, these meets serve as the final measuring stick for the improvements they’ve made over the course of 2015. Read more...
Photo: Sophomore diver Maria Polyakova and the rest of the UCLA diving team travel east this weekend to the Jean Freeman Invitational at the University of Minnesota. Polyakova will get to compete against Gopher diver Yu Zhou, the 2014 3-meter champion. (Daily Bruin file photo)
It’s 5:30 a.m. on a cool morning in early April and both senior utility Danny McClintick and junior center Patrick Woepse are headed to their morning weight training. Read more...
Photo: Senior utility Danny McClintick was involved in an automobile accident in early April, and has spent the past eight months on the road to recovery. McClintick has had some of his best performances in important games this year. (Tehya Faulk/Daily Bruin)
Forty-one to seven. That was what the scoreboard read at halftime the last time UCLA men’s basketball took on Kentucky. The Bruins trailed by 34 points heading into the locker room, having shot 8 percent from the field compared to the Wildcats’ 46. Read more...
Photo: Junior guard Bryce Alford said that the UCLA men’s basketball team tried to hype up last year’s Kentucky game too much. The Bruins fell by 39 points, and failed to score a point until the Wildcats had already taken a 24-point lead. (Aubrey Yeo/Daily Bruin senior staff)
The women’s volleyball team has faced its fair share of familiar foes throughout the season. That won’t be the case Friday night, as No. 14-seed UCLA (23-7, 14-6 Pac-12) hosts Lipscomb (23-8, 13-1 Atlantic Sun) in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, marking the first time the two programs have ever met. Read more...
Photo: Behind the steady play of junior libero Taylor Formico, the UCLA women’s volleyball team earned the No. 14 seed in the 2015 NCAA Tournament. Formico was named Pac-12 Libero of the Year this week. (Korbin Placet/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Approaching the end of regulation on Saturday afternoon in the Bahamas, Jordin Canada walked back to the bench after getting her fifth personal foul against No. Read more...
Photo: Sophomore forward Monique Billings said that she’s expecting the visiting Cal State Bakersfield team to be versatile when it travels to Pauley Pavilion Saturday afternoon. The Bruins defeated the Roadrunners in the first round of last year’s Women’s National Invitation Tournament. (Keila Mayberry/Daily Bruin staff)
The Daily Bruin sports editors get caught up in the Thanksgiving spirit and dole out some thank-yous to various corners of the UCLA sporting world! Read more...
Photo: (Angela Cosme|Daily Bruin)
