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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 SCORERS UCLA Bruins (11-9, 4-3) at Washington State Cougars (8-12, 1-6) No. Player GP GS MPG RPG APG PPG Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2019 – 7 p.m. (PT) 13 Kris Wilkes 20 20 30.6 4.8 1.9 17.8 Pullman, Wash. (Beasley Coliseum) 4 Jaylen Hands 20 20 30.3 3.7 6.5 12.0 GAME INFORMATION 1 Moses Brown 20 20 23.9 9.0 0.4 11.1 Venue: Beasley Coliseum (Pullman, Wash.) 23 Prince Ali 20 20 25.7 2.5 1.5 10.4 Venue Capacity: 11,671 Tipoff Time: 7:06 p.m. (PT) vs. 2018-19 SCHEDULE Television: Pac-12 Network Roxy Bernstein (play-by-play), P.J. Carlesimo (analyst) Exhibition Game TV Talent: 11-9, 4-3 8-12, 1-6 Radio (UCLA Sports Network from IMG): AM 570 Oct. 27 N.Y. Institute of Tech. P12N W 125-73 Radio Talent: Josh Lewin (play-by-play), Tracy Murray (analyst) UCLA has gone 107-17 in the all-time series against November XM Radio Channel: Ch. 388 Washington State, having won last season’s only matchup. Tue. 6 Purdue Fort Wayne P12N W 96-71 SIRIUS App Channel: Ch. 979 Fri. 9 Long Beach State P12N W 91-80 Fri. 16 Saint Francis U P12N W 95-58 Mon. 19 Presbyterian P12N W 80-65 UCLA VERSUS WASHINGTON STATE Thu. 22 vs. (11) Michigan State 1 FS1 L 67-87 The Bruins will return to the road this week, playing at Washington State on Wednesday evening. UCLA has not played at Fri. 23 vs. (7) North Carolina 1 FOX L 78-94 Washington State since securing a 95-79 win in Pullman on Feb. 1, 2017. As a freshman, TJ Leaf recorded 32 points and Wed. 28 Hawai’i P12N W 80-61 14 rebounds in that game. Last winter, UCLA downed Washington State in Pauley Pavilion, 96-82, in the only meeting of the regular season between the two schools. UCLA has won its last four meetings against Washington State, with the most December recent loss having taken place Jan. 3, 2016 in Pullman (the Cougars won, 85-78). Sun. 2 Loyola Marymount P12N W 82-58 Sat. 8 Notre Dame ESPN2 W 65-62 THE LAST TIME OUT Sat. 15 Belmont P12N L 72-74 Sophomore Kris Wilkes scored a career-high 34 points, connecting on 12 of 16 shots, as UCLA defeated Arizona 90-69 Wed. 19 at Cincinnati ESPN2 L 64-93 before 11,164 last Saturday night in Pauley Pavilion. That marked the most points scored by any UCLA underclassman 2 Sat. 22 vs. (15) Ohio State CBS L 66-80 in a game since Isaac Hamilton registered 36 points against USC in a Pac-12 Tournament quarterfinal win on March 12, Sat. 29 Liberty P12N L 58-73 2015. The list below of top underclassman performances includes the 1994-95 season through the 2018-19 campaign. January UCLA underclassmen in the last 25 seasons with 31+ points in a game Thu. 3 Stanford* ESPN W 92-70 Player Yr. Points FG FGA Date Opponent Sat. 5 California* P12N W 98-83 Kris Wilkes So. 34 12 16 01/26/2019 Arizona, at UCLA Thu. 10 at Oregon* ESPN (OT) W 87-84 TJ Leaf Fr. 32 14 18 02/01/2017 at Washington State Sun. 13 at Oregon State* FS1 L 66-79 Isaac Hamilton So. 36 13 17 03/12/2015 USC, in Las Vegas Sat. 19 at USC* CBS L 67-80 Jordan Adams So. 31 11 15 03/06/2014 at Washington Thu. 24 Arizona State* FS1 L 73-84 Bryce Alford Fr. 31 7 17 02/27/2014 Oregon, at UCLA (OT) Sat. 26 Arizona* ESPN2 W 90-69 Tyler Honeycutt So. 33 11 15 12/02/2010 at Kansas Wed. 30 at Washington State* P12N 7 p.m. February DOUBLE FIGURE SCORER Sat. 2 at Washington* ESPN2 1 p.m. Sophomore Kris Wilkes has scored in double figures in all 20 games, standing as the third player in the Pac-12 this season Wed. 6 Colorado* P12N 6 p.m. to have scored 10-plus points in every game played (Oregon State’s Tres Tinkle has scored 10-plus points in 18 games, Sat. 9 Utah* FOX 2 p.m. while the injured Bol Bol at Oregon scored 10-plus points in nine games). Wilkes has become the first UCLA player to have Wed. 13 at California* P12N 7 p.m. scored 10 or more points in his first 20 games of a season since TJ Leaf (freshman) did so in his first 21 games in 2016-17. Sat. 16 at Stanford* ESPN/2/U 7 p.m. Prior to Leaf, Kevin Love (freshman) scored 10-plus points in all 39 contests during UCLA’s 2007-08 campaign. Thu. 21 Oregon State* FS1 8 p.m. Sat. 23 Oregon* ESPN/2 7 p.m. CRASHING THE BOARDS Thu. 28 USC* ESPN/2/U 6 p.m. UCLA entered the week ranking No. 1 in the Pac-12 and No. 3, nationally, in rebounds per game (43.0), through Sunday, Jan. 27. The Bruins ranked No. 2 in the Pac-12 and No. 32 in the country in rebounding margin (+5.8). Freshman Moses March Brown (11.1 ppg, 9.0 rpg) ranks fourth in the Pac-12 in rebounds per game (9.0) and is second in the league in field goal Thu. 7 at Colorado* ESPN/2/U 7 p.m. (MT) percentage (64.1%). Brown, a 7-foot-1 center, also ranks No. 2 in the Pac-12 in blocks per game (2.2). Sat. 9 at Utah* P12N 5 p.m. (MT) FIRST TIME SINCE: Moses Brown’s 23-point, 14-rebound and eight-block effort against Saint Francis (Nov. 16) marked Postseason Schedule the first time any UCLA player had at least 20 points and five blocks in a game since Jan. 22, 2000 (Jerome Moiso). Wed.-Sat. March 13-16 Pac-12 Tournament 3 Tue.-Wed. March 19-20 NCAA First Four ASSIST LEADER Thu.-Sun. March 21-24 NCAA 1st, 2nd Rounds Sophomore Jaylen Hands leads all Pac-12 players in total assists (130) and assists per game (6.5). The 6-foot-3 guard from Thu.-Sun. March 28-31 NCAA Regional San Diego has averaged 12.0 points, 3.7 rebounds and 6.5 assists through 20 games. Hands ranks No. 5 in the Pac-12 in Sat., Mon. April 6, 8 NCAA Final Four 4 assist-turnover ratio (2-to-1), through games played Sunday, Jan. 27. He has recorded at least nine assists in seven games * Pac-12 Conference games and tallied at least 10 assists in three straight games in December (versus Hawai’i, Notre Dame and Belmont). rankings in parenthesis are from the weekly AP poll RARE FEAT: In Dec. 2018, Hands became the first Pac-12 player to record at least 10 assists in three straight games 1 Continental Tire Las Vegas Invitational, Orleans Arena (Las Vegas) since USC’s Brandon Granville in March 2000. Granville also accomplished that feat in Jan. 2000 and Nov. 1999. 2 CBS Sports Classic, United Center (Chicago) 3 Pac-12 Tournament, T-Mobile Arena (Las Vegas) LOOKING AHEAD TO SATURDAY 4 at U.S. Bank Stadium (Minneapolis, Minn.) The Bruins will conclude their trip to the state of Washington with an afternoon contest versus the Washington Huskies on Saturday, Feb. 2. UCLA has compiled a 99-42 all-time record against the Huskies. The Bruins won the only matchup UCLA ON SOCIAL MEDIA between the two programs last season, securing a 74-53 win over Washington in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. In that Men’s Basketball Twitter: @UCLAMBB game, UCLA trailed at halftime 36-28 and closed the contest on a 26-1 scoring run, holding the Huskies without a field goal Men’s Basketball Instagram: @UCLAMBB in the game’s final eight minutes. UCLA has not played at Washington since Feb. 4, 2017 (UCLA won that game, 107-66). Men’s Basketball Facebook: /UCLAMensBasketball UCLA Athletics Twitter: @UCLAAthletics STANDING TALL UCLA Athletics Instagram: @UCLAAthletics UCLA’s 17-person roster includes eight players who measure at least 6-foot-8. Freshman Moses Brown (7-foot-1, 245 UCLA Athletics Facebook: /UCLAAthletics pounds) is the Bruins’ tallest player since the late Mike Lanier (7-foot-7, 310 pounds) competed as a reserve center for UCLA in 1991-92 and 1992-93. UCLA redshirt junior Alex Olesinski and redshirt freshman Jalen Hill both stand at 6-feet- #GoBruins 10, while freshmen Shareef O’Neal and Kenneth Nwuba, sophomore Chris Smith and redshirt freshman Cody Riley all stand at 6-foot-9. Sophomore guard Kris Wilkes rounds out the eight-person group at 6-foot-8. 2018-19 UCLA MEN’S BASKETBALL MEDIA INFORMATION 2018-19 UCLA NUMERICAL ROSTER UCLA Athletic Communications No. Name Yr. Pos. Ht. Wt. Hometown (Previous School) J.D. Morgan Center, Suite 128 0 Alex Olesinski R-Jr. F 6-10 220 Roswell, N.M. (La Lumiere School [IN]) 325 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1 Moses Brown Fr. C 7-1 245 Queens, N.Y. (Archbishop Molloy HS) Men’s Basketball Contact Alex Timiraos 2 Cody Riley R-Fr. F 6-9 240 Kansas City, Kan.