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 LEADING SCORERS Utah Utes (10-5, 2-2) at UCLA Bruins (12-4, 3-1) No. Player GP GS MPG RPG APG PPG Thursday, Jan. 11, 2018 – 8 p.m. (PT) 3 Aaron Holiday 16 16 36.8 4.0 5.3 19.4 Los Angeles, Calif. (Pauley Pavilion) 13 Kris Wilkes 16 16 28.1 5.4 1.4 13.6 40 Thomas Welsh 16 16 32.1 11.1 1.8 12.8 GAME INFORMATION 4 Jaylen Hands 15 5 26.3 3.9 3.1 11.8 Venue: Pauley Pavilion (13,800) 23 Prince Ali 16 11 23.9 2.4 1.6 10.6 Game Time: 8 p.m. (PT) at Television: ESPN2 2017-18 SCHEDULE TV Talent: Dave Pasch (play-by-play), Bill Walton (analyst) 10-4, 2-1 12-4, 3-1 Radio (UCLA Sports Network from IMG): AM 1150 All-Time Series: UCLA leads, 9-7 Exhibition Game Radio Talent: Josh Lewin (play-by-play), Tracy Murray (analyst) Nov. 1 Cal State L.A. P12N W 111-80 SIRIUS/XM Radio Channels: Ch. 84 / Ch. 84 UCLA has gone 5-3 against Utah since the Utes joined November SIRIUS App Channel: Ch. 84 the Pac-12 Conference in the summer of 2011. Sat. 11 Georgia Tech 1 ESPN W 63-60 Wed. 15 Central Arkansas 2 P12N (OT) W 106-101 Fri. 17 South Carolina State 2 P12N W 96-68 UP NEXT 3 Mon. 20 vs. Creighton ESPNU L 89-100 The Bruins will face Utah in a nationally-televised game (ESPN2) this Thursday evening in Pauley Pavilion. UCLA and Utah 3 Tue. 21 vs. Wisconsin ESPN3 W 72-70 played each other just once last season and once in 2015-16. Last winter, the Bruins secured an 83-82 victory against the Sun. 26 UC Irvine P12N W 87-63 Utes at the Huntsman Center in Salt Lake City (Jan. 14, 2017). Utah defeated UCLA in the most recent meeting in Pauley Wed. 29 CSU Bakersfield P12N W 75-66 Pavilion, edging the Bruins by a 75-73 on Feb. 18, 2016. UCLA will play at Utah on Thursday, Feb. 22. December UCLA vs. UTAH: UCLA has posted a 9-7 all-time record against Utah and has won five of the eight meetings against the Sun. 3 Detroit Mercy P12N W 106-73 Utes since they joined the conference, prior to the 2011-12 school year. This Thursday’s game will mark just the fourth Wed. 6 Montana P12N Canceled (wildfires) game for Utah against UCLA in Pauley Pavilion (UCLA has gone 2-1 in Pauley Pavilion versus Utah). Sat. 9 at Michigan CBS (OT) L 69-78 Sat. 16 (25) Cincinnati CBS L 63-77 LAST WEEKEND Tue. 19 South Dakota P12N W 85-82 UCLA dropped a 107-99 decision in double overtime at Stanford last Thursday, before responding with a 23-point victory Sat. 23 vs. (7) Kentucky 4 CBS W 83-75 (107-84) at California on Saturday afternoon. Stanford overcame a 12-point deficit in the final six minutes of Thursday’s Fri. 29 Washington State* ESPN2 W 96-82 game, tying the game 85-85 with five seconds to play in regulation. UCLA forced a second overtime session at Stanford Sun. 31 Washington* P12N W 74-53 when Aaron Holiday nailed a three-pointer at the buzzer, tying the game 94-94. Holiday scored 31 points in the loss at January Stanford and followed that with a 21-point effort at California less than 48 hours later. Thu. 4 at Stanford* FS1 (2OT) L 99-107 THE LAST TIME OUT Sat. 6 at California* P12N W 107-84 UCLA made a season-best 17 three-pointers (on 30 attempts), scoring a season-high 107 points at California. That marked Thu. 11 Utah* ESPN2 8 p.m. the first time Cal surrendered at least 100 points since losing at Washington, 109-77, on Feb. 10, 2011. In addition, the Sat. 13 Colorado* P12N 7:30 p.m. Thu. 18 at Oregon State* FS1 8 p.m. Bruins became the first team to score at least 100 points in Haas Pavilion against the Golden Bears since Arizona secured Sat. 20 at Oregon* ESPN 7 p.m. a 107-105 win on Feb. 5, 2011. UCLA logged its greatest single-game point total against California since defeating the Thu. 25 California* FS1 7:30 p.m. Golden Bears, 113-93, in Berkeley on Feb. 27, 1976 (113 remains Cal’s program record for most points allowed). Sat. 27 Stanford* P12N 7:30 p.m. HOLIDAY’S HEROICS February Aaron Holiday enters this Thursday’s game having averaged a team-high 19.4 points per game. Even more impressive, the Sat. 3 USC* ESPN/2 3 or 5:15 p.m. junior guard from Chatsworth, Calif., has registered 24.8 points per game in four Pac-12 contests this season. He has twice Thu. 8 at (17) Arizona* ESPN 8 p.m. (MT) scored at least 30 points this season (career-high 33 versus Washington State on Dec. 29, and 31 points at Stanford on Jan. Sat. 10 at (3) Arizona State* P12N 5 p.m. (MT) 4). Holiday has shot 50.0% in the Bruins’ four Pac-12 games, making 12 of 21 attempts from three-point range (57.1%). Thu. 15 Oregon State* FS1 8 p.m. The former standout at Campbell Hall High School has scored in double figures in 15 of UCLA’s 16 games this season. Sat. 17 Oregon* ESPN/2 7:15 p.m. 33 POINTS AGAINST WSU: Aaron Holiday (33 pts, 11 rbs on Dec. 29 against Washington State) became UCLA’s first Thu. 22 at Utah* ESPN/2 7 p.m. (MT) player to record at least 33 points and 11 rebounds in a game since Feb. 26, 1995. Ed O’Bannon had team highs of 37 Sun. 25 at Colorado* ESPNU 2 p.m. (MT) points and 13 rebounds in UCLA’s 100-77 win over Duke in Pauley Pavilion, connecting on 14 of 22 shots. March 30-POINT CLUB: Aaron Holiday has become just the third UCLA player in the last 20 seasons (1998-99 through Sat. 3 at USC* ESPN 7:15 p.m. 5 2017-18) to have scored at least 30 points in two or more games in a single season. Jordan Adams had a pair of 30+ 7-10 Pac-12 Tournament P12N/FS1 TBD point games as a sophomore in 2013-14. Bryce Alford had two games with at least 30 points as a senior in 2016-17. * Pac-12 Conference games ranking in parenthesis indicate the preseason USA Today poll QUITE THE COMEBACK 1 Pac-12 China Game (in Shanghai) UCLA closed its 74-53 victory against Washington (Dec. 31) by outscoring the visiting Huskies, 26-1, over the game’s final This game took place Saturday, Nov. 11, in Shanghai. Adjusted for eight minutes. UCLA trailed UW at halftime, 36-28, and saw the Huskies’ cushion swell to 14 points (43-29) with 17:11 the time difference, that was on Friday evening in Los Angeles. to play in the second half. From that point, UCLA outscored UW by a 45-10 margin the rest of the way. UCLA limited the 2 Hall of Fame Classic (games in Pauley Pavilion) Huskies to 17 second-half points, as Washington shot 6-for-35 (17.1 percent) in the second half. Washington made just 2 3 Hall of Fame Classic (at Sprint Center, Kansas City, Mo.) 4 CBS Sports Classic (at Smoothie King Center, New Orleans, La.) of 27 three-point attempts, the lowest percentage by any UCLA opponent since Jan. 5, 2013 (when Stanford was 0-for-13). 5 Pac-12 Tournament (at T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas) YOUTH MOVEMENT UCLA ON SOCIAL MEDIA Five of the Bruins’ eight primary rotation players did not see action on the court for UCLA last season. Prince Ali and Alex Olesinski (redshirt sophomores) played as true freshmen in 2015-16 but took redshirt years in 2016-17. Freshmen Jaylen Men’s Basketball Twitter: @UCLAMBB Hands, Chris Smith and Kris Wilkes have played vital roles midway through the Bruins’ 2017-18 campaign. Wilkes (13.6 Men’s Basketball Instagram: @UCLAMBB ppg, 5.4 rpg) and Hands (11.8 ppg, 3.9 rpg) are UCLA’s second and fourth-leading scorers, respectively. Smith has scored Men’s Basketball Snapchat: UCLAMBB in double figures three times, most recently totaling 10 points in UCLA’s home victory against South Dakota (Dec. 19). Men’s Basketball Facebook: /UCLAMensBasketball UCLA Athletics Twitter: @UCLAAthletics 1,000 POINT CLUB UCLA Athletics Instagram: @UCLAAthletics Aaron Holiday and Thomas Welsh each reached the heralded 1,000-career-point milestone in a win versus Washington UCLA Athletics Facebook: /UCLAAthletics State (Dec. 29). With a 23-point first half, Holiday became the 55th player in program history to have scored 1,000 or more points wearing a UCLA uniform. In the second half of the game, Welsh became the 56th player to achieve that milestone. #GoBruins Holiday’s 23 points in the first half against WSU marked the largest first-half point total by a Bruin since Jan. 18, 2017, when Isaac Hamilton erupted for 25 first-half points versus Arizona State (Hamilton finished with 33 total points). 2017-18 UCLA MEN’S BASKETBALL MEDIA INFORMATION 2017-18 UCLA NUMERICAL ROSTER UCLA Athletic Communications No.