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Here's how a completely self-inflicted backlash begins: Last weekend, the Los Angeles Times ran a feature story about new UCLA coach Steve Alford. The story, written by Chris Foster, was an entertaining and informative read largely centered around...

Editor's Note: This month, ESPN Insider's college basketball and recruiting experts are teaming up to examine how 15 of the nation's best recruiting classes will fit in with their teams in the 2013-14 season. Today's featured program: UCLA. Check out...

UCLA fans have a lot on their psychological platters right now. Not only are they doing their best to forget the last four years of Ben Howland's tenure, they must also wrestle with what it means that a coach run out of Iowa in the same spring UCLA w...

On Saturday night, after UCLA completed its season sweep over Pac-12 title favorite Arizona, Ben Howland took to praising the play of his star freshman guard Shabazz Muhammad. In the process of that praise, Howland made an absolutely stunning admissi...

In addition to plenty of just-plain-great games -- Louisville's win at Syracuse, Marquette's big home win over Notre Dame, that amazing Duke-Miami thriller at Cameron Indoor Stadium -- Saturday was also filled with bubble action, from the start of th...

Saturday wasn't packed with as many high-quality, top-10 games as we've become used to -- we're spoiled, us hoops fans -- but it did feature a plethora of variously shaky NCAA tournament hopefuls looking to add further credentials to their respective...

Earlier today, I wrote about the eventful day in the Big East, as Villanova upset No. 3 Syracuse and Louisville dropped its third in a row in a loss at Georgetown. Here are a few other afternoon thoughts from around the college hoops landscape: 1....

The quick nitty-gritty on UCLA's impressive 84-73 win at No. 6 Arizona on Thursday night: Overview: Arizona fans showed up in uniform, decked to the highest rafters in white shirts, ready to cheer their revived, No. 6-ranked Wildcats to an expecte...

Since last season, we've had high hopes for this game. Those hopes existed for a whole variety of reasons. On a very basic level, it started with both teams' huge offseason personnel turnover. We saw how Ben Howland and Sean Miller were both infus...

1. Florida is that good. Yes, Missouri was missing leading scorer Laurence Bowers, and yes, the game was in Gainesville. Even so, what Florida did to Missouri on Saturday -- an 83-52 stomping that began in the first minute and never relented -- wa...

At 7:30 p.m. ET, ESPNU unveiled the 2012-13 Wooden Award Midseason Top 25 Presented by Wendy's (a sponsorship I have no problem citing, because I love me a good spicy chicken sandwich) and, by and large, the list was about what you'd expect. This ...

Here are yours truly's 10 big thoughts from the first January hoops Saturday of the year: 1. C.J. McCollum's injury looks like a real bummer. Before we eulogize McCollum's season, it's important to note that we don't know exactly what injury cause...

Want to see one of the saddest Instagram photos of all-time? Here. That comes courtesy of UCLA senior and Daily Bruin sports columnist Sam Strong, who snapped that shot of an entirely empty Bruins student section five minutes before tip-off of las...

"[Josh] Smith has a huge frame and remarkable agility for a player his size. He has long arms and possesses a Division I body already. Despite his youth he has an outstanding feel for the game. ... Though he's a bit overweight, he's quite bouncy a...

Honestly, I couldn't care less about college realignment right now, and not just because I'm burned out on the entire topic. I also really don't want to talk about college realignment because, frankly, there are more interesting things happening toda...

So, you know how Wednesday I said the Shabazz Muhammad eligibility case had officially become a mess? I think I spoke too soon. This story from the L.A. Times is what officially makes it a mess: A conversation overheard on an Aug. 7 commuter flig...