Forward Dillon Brooks and Tyler Dorsey were having their way with UCLA’s soft defense, which allowed the Ducks to lead by double-digit points midway through the second half.
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UCLA and OR taking to the floor tonight is the second of two monster games on ESPN tonight, following North Carolina and Duke.
The Bruins went on a 30-11 point rally to win the game.
OR leads UCLA 20-10 with about 13 minutes left in the first half.
This video features two plays by Ball that saw the Bruins over the line.
Next up: OSU hosts No. 15 UCLA, which lost 84-75 to Oregon Friday night, on Sunday afternoon.
His patrolling of the lane and effort on the boards contained the explosive Ducks, who managed just 10 points over one 10-minute stretch.
The planets must have been aligned just right on Thursday evening in Westwood, because some extremely freaky behavior was going down at Pauley Pavilion during UCLA’s Pac-12 men’s basketball game with Oregon.
Los Angeles was the site for two of the most interesting games on last night’s men’s basketball schedule.
A team that scores as prolifically as UCLA doesn’t need to be elite on defense to contend for a championship, but it’s hard to envision the Bruins winning six straight games in March without significant improvement.
OR led 67-61 when Dorsey missed a three-pointer with five seconds left on the shot clock and then he missed a shot on the next possession as the clock expired.
The Oregon Ducks host the UCLA Bruins Friday at 6pm at Matthew Knight Arena.
“We got stagnant at some point in the second half and the ball stopped moving”, OR guard Tyler Dorsey said. “They had 11 second-chance points in the second half, and we had none”.
OR led by as many as 19 points. Leading 64-49 at the 13:53 mark of the second half, Jordan Bell went to the free throw for two shots but missed.
A win over OR would seem a boost for UCLA’s confidence and a necessity for its hopes to win a regular season Pac-12 championship.
As for UCLA, in an act of grit that symbolized the entire night, that fallen cheerleader actually returned and finished the game.
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Sure, Steve Alford’s team was at home in a jam-packed Pauley Pavilion. The Ducks are 5-1 ATS in the last 6 meetings in Southern California and 4-0 ATS in the last 4 meetings overall.
