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UCLA MEN’S BASKETBALL UCLA Athletic Communications / J.D. Morgan Center / 325 Westwood Plaza / Los Angeles, CA 90095 Men’s Basketball Contact: Alex Timiraos / [email protected] / o: (310) 206-0524 / c: (310) 847-9231 UCLA’S TOP RETURNING SCORERS Long Beach State (0-0) at UCLA (0-0) No. Player GP GS MPG RPG APG PPG Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2019 – 8 p.m. (PT) 23 Prince Ali 26 26 24.5 2.7 1.5 9.6 Los Angeles, Calif. (Pauley Pavilion presented by Wescom) 3 Jules Bernard 33 2 17.2 3.1 0.8 7.6 5 Chris Smith 33 12 19.7 3.7 1.3 6.3 GAME INFORMATION Venue: Pauley Pavilion presented by Wescom 2 Cody Riley 30 8 17.4 4.1 0.7 5.5 Venue Capacity: 13,800 Tipoff Time: 8:06 p.m. (PT) vs. 2019-20 SCHEDULE Television: Pac-12 Network Exhibition Game TV Talent: J.B. Long (play-by-play), Casey Jacobsen (analyst) Oct. 30 Stanislaus State P12N W 87-57 Radio (UCLA Sports Network): AM 1150 0-0 0-0 November Radio Talent: Josh Lewin (play-by-play), Tracy Murray (analyst) XM Channel / SIRIUS Channel: Ch. 84 / Ch. 84 UCLA has recorded a 16-1 all-time record against Long Wed. 6 Long Beach State P12N 8 p.m. SIRIUSXM Internet Channel: Ch. 84 Beach State in a series that began in March 1970. Sun. 10 UC Santa Barbara P12N 4 p.m. Fri. 15 UNLV P12N 8 p.m. Mon. 18 Southern Utah 1 P12N 8 p.m. Thu. 21 Hofstra P12N 8 p.m. WEDNESDAY’S SEASON OPENER Mon. 25 vs. BYU 2 ESPN2 6:30 p.m. (HT) UCLA is set to open its 101st season of men’s basketball against Long Beach State this Wednesday evening. The Bruins Tue. 26 vs. Kansas/Chaminade 2 ESPN/2/U 12/5:30 p.m. (HT) have compiled an all-time record of 16-1 against Long Beach State. The two schools faced off last season in Westwood, Wed. 27 vs. TBD 2 ESPN/2/U TBD with UCLA securing a 91-80 victory in Pauley Pavilion in the Bruins’ second game of the year. The Bruins led at halftime 45-41, as then-freshman Moses Brown finished his second collegiate game with 17 points and 10 rebounds. UCLA and December Sun. 1 San Jose State P12N 5 p.m. Long Beach State have played each other in five of the previous seven seasons, with the Bruins winning all five contests. Sun. 8 Denver P12N 2 p.m. UCLA DOWNS STANISLAUS STATE Sat. 14 at Notre Dame ABC 3 p.m. (ET) The Bruins defeated Stanislaus State, 87-57, in an exhibition game the night of Wednesday, Oct. 30, in Pauley Pavilion. 3 Sat. 21 vs. (9) North Carolina CBS 12 p.m. Freshman Tyger Campbell led the Bruins in scoring (14 points) and assists (11), recording a pair of steals and committing Sat. 28 Cal State Fullerton P12N 2 p.m. just one turnover. Campbell was one of five UCLA players to score in double figures, along with junior Chris Smith (13 January points), sophomore Jalen Hill (11), sophomore Cody Riley (11), and freshman Jaime Jaquez Jr. (11). UCLA limited Stanislaus Thu. 2 at Washington* FS1 7 p.m. State to 38.2 percent shooting from the field, as the Warriors committed 21 turnovers in the preseason tune-up. Sat. 4 at Washington State* P12N 4 p.m. Sat. 11 USC* ESPN2 7 p.m. KEY NOTES ABOUT UCLA Wed. 15 Stanford* P12N 7 p.m. • The Bruins’ roster features 15 student-athletes, including 13 players who were on the team last season. Looking at last Sun. 19 California* ESPNU 5 p.m. season’s primary 11 rotation players, UCLA has returned eight of those student-athletes. UCLA’s returning nucleus includes Thu. 23 at Oregon State* FS1 8 p.m. a pair of fifth-year seniors (Prince Ali, Alex Olesinski), junior Chris Smith and sophomores Jalen Hill, Cody Riley, Jules Sun. 26 at (15) Oregon* FOX 2 p.m. Bernard, Kenneth Nwuba and David Singleton. The Bruins have added incoming freshmen Jaime Jaquez Jr. (Camarillo, Thu. 30 Colorado* ESPN2 8 p.m. Calif.) and Jake Kyman (Aliso Viejo, Calif.), a pair of 6-foot-6 guards from Southern California. February • In addition to Jaquez Jr. and Kyman, the Bruins have welcomed back guard Tyger Campbell and forward Shareef O’Neal, a Sun. 2 Utah* FS1 12 p.m. pair of talented young players who missed the 2018-19 season due to medical reasons. Campbell, a 5-foot-11 guard who Thu. 6 at Arizona State* ESPN2/U 9 p.m. (MT) grew up in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, tore his ACL in his left knee in October 2018. As a senior at La Lumiere School in Indiana Sat. 8 at (21) Arizona* ESPN/2 8 p.m. (MT) (2017-18), Campbell averaged 15.5 points and 7.2 assists per game. O’Neal, a 6-foot-9 forward from Los Angeles, was Thu. 13 Washington State* P12N 8 p.m. sidelined for the entire 2018-19 season after recovering from heart surgery in December. Sat. 15 Washington* ESPN/2/U 7 p.m. Thu. 20 at Utah* FS1 8:30 p.m. (MT) • UCLA’s roster includes 10 freshmen and sophomores but does feature seven student-athletes who have played in at Sat. 22 at Colorado* CBS 2 p.m. (MT) least 30 college games. Prince Ali, a 6-foot-4 senior, has played in 88 career games, making 48 starts. Ali and senior Thu. 27 Arizona State* P12N 8 p.m. Alex Olesinski enrolled at UCLA in the summer of 2015 and have entered the season as UCLA’s most experienced players Sat. 29 (21) Arizona* ESPN/2 7 p.m. (Olesinski has played in 73 games). Chris Smith, a 6-foot-9 junior who grew up in Fort Worth, Texas, has played in all 66 March games for the Bruins the past two seasons, making 12 starts last season. Sat. 7 at USC* CBS 12:15 p.m. • Mick Cronin enters his first season as The Michael Price Family UCLA Men’s Head Basketball Coach. Hired as the Bruins’ Postseason Schedule head coach in April 2019, Cronin spent the previous 13 seasons as head coach at the University of Cincinnati, his alma Wed.-Sat. March 11-14 Pac-12 Tournament 4 mater. He guided Cincinnati to the NCAA Tournament the past nine seasons and helped the Bearcats capture the America Tue.-Wed. March 17-18 NCAA First Four Athletic Conference’s regular-season title in 2014 and 2018. Cincinnati also won the AAC Tournament championship in Thu.-Sun. March 19-22 NCAA 1st, 2nd Rounds 2018 and 2019. Cronin is entering his 17th season as a college basketball head coach. Thu.-Sun. March 26-29 NCAA Regional Sat., Mon. April 4, 6 NCAA Final Four 5 HEADED BACK TO MAUI The Bruins will be playing in the Maui Jim Maui Invitational this November for the sixth time. Most recently, UCLA played * Pac-12 Conference games in the eight-team tournament in Nov. 2015, defeating UNLV in a first-round matchup before dropping consecutive games rankings in parenthesis are from the weekly AP poll to Kansas and Wake Forest. UCLA won the tournament in 2006, with consecutive victories over Chaminade, Kentucky and 1 Maui on the Mainland, in Pauley Pavilion 2 Maui Jim Maui Invitational, at Lahaina Civic Center Georgia Tech. This season, the Bruins will open against BYU on Monday, Nov. 25. UCLA’s second game will take place opposing teams include BYU, Chaminade, Dayton, Georgia, against either Kansas or Chaminade, while the Bruins will conclude the tournament on Wednesday, Nov. 27. Kansas, Michigan State and Virginia Tech 3 CBS Sports Classic, T-Mobile Arena (Las Vegas, Nev.) LIMITING THE OPPOSITION 4 Pac-12 Tournament, T-Mobile Arena (Las Vegas, Nev.) As Cincinnati’s head coach, Mick Cronin led the Bearcats to at least 20 victories in each of the past nine years. He guided 5 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium (Atlanta, Ga.) his 2017-18 team to an overall mark of 31-5 (highest single-game win total as a head coach). For six straight seasons (2012-13 through 2017-18), Cincinnati ranked in the top 20 in the nation in opponents’ field goal percentage. In fact, UCLA ON SOCIAL MEDIA Cronin’s Cincinnati squad in 2017-18 ranked No. 2, nationally, in that category, having limited the opposition to a 37.4 Men’s Basketball Twitter: @UCLAMBB field goal percentage. In each of the past eight seasons, Cincinnati ranked in the top 45, nationally, in total blocked shots. Men’s Basketball Instagram: @UCLAMBB Men’s Basketball Facebook: /UCLAMensBasketball SEASON OPENERS UCLA Athletics Twitter: @UCLAAthletics UCLA has gone 7-3 in season openers over the past 10 years and 15-5 in opening games over the past 20 seasons (two UCLA Athletics Instagram: @UCLAAthletics of those five losses took place in overtime or double overtime). The Bruins have opened the season with a game in Pauley UCLA Athletics Facebook: /UCLAAthletics Pavilion in 16 of their previous 20 seasons. Last fall, UCLA tipped off the regular season with a 96-71 victory over Purdue Fort Wayne in Pauley Pavilion (Nov. 6, 2018). Through his 16 previous seasons as a head coach, Mick Cronin has directed #GoBruins his teams to a 13-3 record in season-opening games (11-2 while at Cincinnati and 2-1 while at Murray State). 2019-20 UCLA MEN’S BASKETBALL MEDIA INFORMATION 2019-20 UCLA NUMERICAL ROSTER UCLA Athletic Communications No.