On a day when No. 1 seeds dominated, UCLA wasn’t the exception. The top-seeded Bruins led wire-to-wire, beating No. 8-seed Oklahoma State 87-68 in the second round of the NCAA tournament on Monday night at Pauley Pavilion to advance to the Sweet 16. They will face No. 4-seed Minnesota on Friday in Sacramento. While UCLA…
No. 9 USC struggles to contain Joyce Edwards and Madina Okot and commits 27 turnovers in a 101-61 loss to South Carolina in the second round of the NCAA tournament. COLUMBIA, S.C. — Monday night served as a litmus test for ninth-seeded USC to see how a program on its way back to prominence measured up against…
Michael Jordan didn’t seem too upset. Hours after Kevin Durant knocked him out of the top five on the NBA’s all-time scoring list , Jordan was all smiles as he walked to Victory Lane to greet Tyler Reddick after the driver’s win Sunday at Darlington Raceway. Reddick — who drives for 23XI Racing, which is…
With just over five minutes left in UCLA’s first-round win over California Baptist on Saturday, freshman Sienna Betts took a shot. She missed. She grabbed the rebound. She missed again. Then, she put it in the basket. On the bench, her older sister, Lauren Betts, was laughing. No. 1 seed UCLA was up big late,…
PHILADELPHIA — The question will remain unanswered. Would UCLA have beaten Connecticut if Tyler Bilodeau was healthy? That’s what will haunt the Bruins and their fans for the rest of March Madness. Even without their leading scorer the seventh-seeded Bruins battled valiantly, briefly taking the lead in the second half. But in the end they simply didn’t…
The adage goes, it doesn’t have to be pretty. But for the UCLA women’s basketball team, that’s not the philosophy. Coach Cori Close preaches thriving, not surviving, and that’s been evident in the Bruins’ lopsided victory margin all season. That’s why leading by 10 points at halftime against a No. 16 seed was likely alarming….
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Ninth-seeded USC brought all the energy and intensity you would want from a young team in March and it paid off with a gutsy 71-67 overtime win against No. 8 Clemson in the first round of the NCAA tournament on Saturday. Jazzy Davidson‘s heroics were the difference as she hit back-to-back three pointers in…
PHILADELPHIA — Besides carrying on the UCLA legacy, which Mick Cronin says is an honor in itself, he’s got an extra incentive here this weekend that has nothing to do with finding the best cheesesteak in town. “We’ve got to win two games,” said Cronin, whose Bruins will start off going against Central Florida, whose coach, Johnny…
MIAMI — This is 41. On the same night he tied Robert Parish for the NBA record in regular-season games played, ageless wonder LeBron James had a 19-point, 15-rebound, 10-assist triple-double in Thursday’s 134-126 win over the Miami Heat. The 41-year-old playing in his 1,611th game helped the Lakers (45-25) win their season-best eighth consecutive game while…
HOUSTON — The combination of Luka Doncic and LeBron James was overpowering and enthralling for all to see during the Lakers’ dynamic 124-116 win over the Houston Rockets at Toyota Center on Wednesday. Doncic was a rebound shy of a triple-double with 40 points, 10 assists and nine rebounds. James was a force with 30 points, missing…
