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Ben Howland Tinkers With the Lineup Against Cal And It Works

This is the season we get to see what kind of coach UCLA Bruins basketball coach Ben Howland really is…
By far this is the least talented team he’s had in quite some time but he seems to be getting more familiar with their individual talents and his latest tinkering with the  lineup payed off huge [...]

This Is Not A Talented UCLA Bruins Basketball Team

You can say it however you want but it is now painfully evident after UCLA’s first weekend of Pac-10 play the UCLA Bruins basketball team is really down in talent this year.
UCLA fans were pretty pumped up and high after UCLA began Pac-10 play with an upset victory over Arizona State but what they didn’t [...]

Pac 10 Down this Season

From: California Golden Blogs
We all knew the Bruins would take a step back this year, considering all the talent they lost to the NBA and graduation, but losing at home to Cal State – Fullerton?!??
For the most part, the rest of their losses have been at least respectable (well, the opponents have been, if not [...]

UCLA Basketball Season Preview

From: Sports Network
Darren Collison, Jrue Holiday, Josh Shipp and Alfred Aboya are gone, and with them went over 47 points per contest. Only one starter is back in the fold, as senior Nikola Dragovic brings back 9.4 ppg and a 6-9 frame to the frontcourt. So with all of the losses, how is Ben Howland [...]

UCLA Basketball Team Looking Very Average Right Now

UCLA basketball coach Ben Howland is taking a lot of shit right now form the local media because he’s supposedly a really tough defensive minded coach and that he’s not focusing enough time on the offense and I’ll tell you what. In watching UCLA lose to both Arizona and Arizona State it was painfully obvious…

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