UCLA concludes a six-game homestand on Tuesday when it hosts its first-ever Huge Ten Convention sport in Los Angeles, albeit towards acquainted league foe Washington.
The Bruins (6-1) welcome their longtime Pac-12 Convention counterpart within the Huge Ten debut for each applications. UCLA is driving a five-game successful streak, having breezed by means of a sequence of nonconference matchups that wrapped up with an 88-43 blowout of Southern Utah on Nov. 26.
Within the 45-point romp, UCLA’s Dylan Andrews scored 11 factors, dished three assists and had just one turnover. It was a promising exhibiting from the junior, who struggled by means of the preliminary stretch of the season with a groin harm and inconsistent play.
“When you may have a guard (who) is in his third 12 months and began (virtually) each sport final 12 months and is the one man (who) has been in your program for 3 years … he is most likely going to should have a extremely good 12 months,” Bruins coach Mick Cronin stated of Andrews on Monday. “I am not saying he is obtained to be Participant of the Yr within the Huge Ten, however he is obtained to offer us manufacturing.”
Washington (6-1) continues a Southern California swing after successful a pair of video games eventually weekend’s Acrisure Invitational in Palm Desert. The Huskies beat Colorado State 73-67 within the occasion’s first spherical on Thursday behind Tyler Harris’ 24 factors and eight rebounds.
“He is enjoying with a ton of confidence, he is being aggressive and the one factor he is doing proper now, he is flattening pictures,” Washington coach Danny Sprinkle stated to Sports activities Illustrated of Harris. “When he is flattening his (3-point pictures), he is actually arduous to protect.”
The Huskies then downed Santa Clara 76-69 on Friday within the match closing, led by Nice Osobor’s 19 factors and eight rebounds.
Washington’s Tuesday go to to UCLA is the third matchup between the applications within the calendar 12 months. Nevertheless, this Huskies squad appears to be like dramatically completely different from the model that fell to the Bruins 73-61 at Los Angeles in January, then returned the favor with a 94-77 win at Seattle in February.
Sprinkle took over as Washington’s head coach within the offseason and overhauled the roster, with the arrival of Osobor being a key addition. Osobor received Mountain West Convention Participant of the Yr on Sprinkle’s Utah State crew final season, and the massive man at the moment leads the Huskies in scoring (14.6 factors per sport), rebounding (10.3 per sport) and assists (3.9 per sport) by means of seven video games.
Harris transferred to Washington from the College of Portland, the place he made the West Coast Convention’s All-Freshman crew in 2023-24.
UCLA underwent its personal makeover earlier than Cronin’s sixth season in cost, with former Pac-12 counterparts Kobe Johson (Southern California) and Tyler Bilodeau (Oregon State) getting into to serve distinguished roles. Bilodeau paces the crew in scoring (13.9 ppg) and rebounds (5.7 rpg).
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