Pac-12 M5:11.08.12 Edition
Pac-12 basketball exhibition games are generally meaningless affairs where a big school beats up on an overmatched foe while the former’s head coach tinkers around with different lineups and different...
View ArticleWho’s Got Next? Indiana Scores With Noah Vonleh; Nigel Hayes Becomes A Badger…
Who’s Got Next? is a weekly column by Chad Lykins, the RTC recruiting guru. Once a week he will bring you an overview of what’s going on in the complex world of recruiting, from who is signing where...
View ArticleUCLA Post-Mortem
Now that we are officially in the offseason, it’s time to take a look back and evaluate each team’s 2012-13 performance. Next on our list: UCLA. What Went Right All things considered, a lot of things...
View ArticlePac-12 Team Preview: UCLA Bruins
We continue unveiling our team-by-team breakdowns, in roughly the reverse order of where we expect these teams to finish in the conference standings. UCLA Bruins Strengths. There is a lot of pure...
View ArticlePac-12 M5: 11.19.13 Edition
Utah is off to a 2-0 start with an average margin of victory of 59 points. As you would suspect, the quality of competition hasn’t been stellar so far. And as Mike Sorensen of Deseret News notes, it’s...
View ArticlePac-12 Season Preview: UCLA Bruins
Throughout the preseason, the Pac-12 microsite will preview each of the league’s 10 teams, from worst to first. Today: UCLA. UCLA Bruins Strengths. There’s plenty of talent here, no doubt. Norman...
View ArticleUCLA’s Most Important Player: Isaac Hamilton
The offseason in Westwood could have gone better — much better. The Bruins knew they were going to be woefully thin in the backcourt, and head coach Steve Alford was never going to completely replace...
View ArticleSeparating Fact From Fiction in UCLA’s Five-Game Slide
I touched on the disaster that is UCLA basketball this season in Tuesday’s quick spin around the conference. And, the thing is, so did just about every writer either interested in UCLA, the Pac-12 or —...
View ArticleUCLA Preview: Low Ceiling, High Floor?
In the next three weeks leading up to season tipoff, the Pac-12 microsite will be evaluating each of the league’s 12 teams. Today’s stop: Westwood. UCLA Bruins Steve Alford has been in Westwood for two...
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