183 MEDIA INFORMATION CREDENTIALS Admission to Pauley Pavilion’s press seating and media room is by credential only. All credential requests should be made through UCLA’s credential website at least two days in advance of the game. Website address and instructions can be obtained by emailing Alex Timiraos (atimiraos@athletics. ucla.edu). Members of the media should request credentials for road games through Timiraos (via email, or by phone at 310-206-0524). CREDENTIAL PICKUP Credentials are available during the week at the Sports Information Office. Credentials not claimed before game day will be available at Pauley Pavilion’s Will Call window, located along the arena’s Northwest corner. The media will call window and adjacent media entrance will open approximately two hours prior to tip-off. MEDIA PARKING A limited number of single-game parking passes Jordan Adams (left) is interviewed on the court by FOX Sports analyst Jarron Collins are available for purchase ($12.00). These passes are good for a special area in parking Lot 8 (south POST-GAME PROCEDURE DIRECTIONS side of Pauley Pavilion), which can be accessed Following a cooling-off period, head coach Steve Directions to UCLA and Pauley Pavilion: From Los by following Westwood Blvd. into campus from Alford and UCLA student-athletes will be available Angeles International Airport, take Century Blvd. Westwood Village (adjacent to the 405 freeway). for interviews in the media workroom (event level). east to the San Diego Freeway (405). Take the 405 MEDIA ENTRANCE/SEATING The UCLA locker room is closed to the media. The north to Wilshire Blvd. (approx. 12 miles). Continue A press pass enables entrance at Pauley Pavilion’s visiting coach will be available outside the visitor’s east on Wilshire, make a left on Westwood Blvd. Northwest media gate (across from the intramural locker room (northwest corner, event level). Continue north along Westwood toward campus. All-day passes ($12.00) are available for purchase field). Press seating is located in the upper level of WEEKDAY INTERVIEWS the arena’s south side (opposite team benches). from the parking information kiosk in the middle of Requests for coach and player interviews should the street, just past Lot 8. Media are encouraged MEDIA WORKROOM be made to Alex Timiraos in the Sports Information to park in Lot 8 on the west side of Westwood Blvd, The Pauley Pavilion media workroom is located on Office. Please give at least 24 hours notice. just south of Strathmore Drive. Head Coach: Steve Alford addresses the media at the arena’s event level, nearest to the southeast UCLA WEBSITE elevator. Game notes, statistics and in-game approximately 2:00 p.m. each Tuesday (30 minutes refreshments will be provided prior to tip-off. prior to practice) on the court in Pauley Pavilion All UCLA releases, results and statistics are posted (northeast corner). on UCLA’s official website (uclabruins.com). The MEDIA SERVICES official website also includes postgame video recaps, Media will be supplied with pregame notes, Players: All interviews must be arranged through videos of Steve Alford’s weekly press conferences, halftime and final statistics, a full play-by-play the Sports Information Office at least 24 hours in featured video items with UCLA’s student-athletes account of the game and postgame quotes from advance. Players will be available following Steve and links to UCLA’s social media websites, including both head coaches. Media members wishing to Alford’s remarks on Tuesday afternoons. Special Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. order a telephone line should email Alex Timiraos player interview times on Monday and Tuesday can ([email protected]). Telephone lines have also be arranged. Please do not expect players to be been installed at the visiting radio position courtesy available if you have not made prior arrangements. SPORTS INFORMATION of IMG, UCLA’s media rights partner. PRACTICE Men’s Basketball SID: Alex Timiraos Email: [email protected] PHOTOGRAPHY The UCLA basketball team practices in Pauley Office Phone: (310) 206-0524 Photo passes are available to accredited media and Pavilion. Generally, UCLA’s team practices are should be ordered in the same manner as media closed to the media and public. Media members Assoc. A.D., Communications: Josh Rupprecht are allowed to observe and record footage from the Email: [email protected] credentials. Photographers must work from the Office Phone: (310) 206-8194 baselines between the basket support and the right first 15 minutes of practice following Steve Alford’s sideline. Photographers are not allowed to shoot media availability on Tuesday afternoons (date is Alex Timiraos is currently in his third season as the from the sidelines or seating areas at any time. subject to change, depending upon UCLA’s game primary media contact for the UCLA men’s basketball schedule that week). team. All interview and credential requests should Passes should be worn in plain sight at all times. be directed to Timiraos, preferably via email. Josh Rupprecht serves as the UCLA athletic department’s Associate Athletic Director for Communications. KEY PHONE NUMBERS UCLA Sports Information Office (310) 206-7870 Sports Information Fax Number (310) 825-8664 Pauley Pavilion Press Row Phone Number (310) 206-9562 UCLA’s Athletic Website www.uclabruins.com UCLA Basketball on Social Media Twitter: @UCLAMBB Instagram: @UCLAMBB Facebook: facebook.com/UCLAMensBasketball Kyle Anderson (center) speaks postgame with ESPN’s Bill Walton (left) and Dave Pasch 184 MEDIA INFORMATION UCLA BASKETBALL ON TELEVISION, RADIO For the seventh straight season, UCLA men’s basketball games will be produced by the UCLA Sports Network from IMG, with AM 570 Fox Sports LA in Los Angeles serving as the flagship station for the network. This is the 18th year of UCLA’s partnership with AM 570 Fox Sports LA owner Clear Channel. Other stations on the UCLA Sports Network from IMG include KXEX (1550 AM) in Fresno and KSLK (96.1 FM) in Visalia. In 2014-15, all 31 regular-season basketball games will be televised live. The Bruins will have at least 11 games broadcast by the ESPN family of networks. Four games will be televised by FOX Sports, and 12 will be carried by Pac-12 Networks. CBS will televise UCLA’s game against Kentucky on Dec. 20. Hall of Fame broadcaster Chris Roberts ([email protected]) enters his 23rd year as the “Voice of the Bruins” and his 34th season broadcasting NCAA Division I sports in Los Angeles. Roberts was honored with the Chick Hearn Award for best “play-by-play” by the Southern California Sports Broadcasters on Jan. 28, 2013. Roberts, a Hall of Famer of the same organization (inducted on Jan. 30, 2012), has broadcast more NCAA Division I games on Los Angeles radio since 1982 than any other broadcaster. Tracy Murray (left) and Chris Roberts Prior to joining the Bruins in the fall of 1992, Roberts served as the voice of Long Beach State for 10 years and one with Cal State Fullerton. During that Tracy Murray, who starred on the court at UCLA from 1990-1992, will be in his time, he was the sports director at KFI/KOST 103 FM. A four-time Golden Mike seventh season as a color analyst alongside Roberts. A 12-year NBA veteran, winner, he also handles the play-by-play duties for UCLA football. He has also Murray ranks ninth on UCLA’s all-time scoring list (1,792 points in 98 career authored two books, Stadium Stories: UCLA Bruins and UCLA Football Vault games). After helping lead the UCLA baskeball program to three consecutive (co-authored with Bill Bennett). NCAA Tournament appearances (1990, 1991, 1992), Murray was selected An eight-time nominee for the Southern California Broadcasters Association No. 18 in the first round of the 1992 NBA Draft by the San Antonio Spurs. “Play-by-Play Broadcaster of the Year” award, Roberts is a voter for both the Fans around the nation can also follow select UCLA games on SIRIUS and XM Heisman Trophy and the Wooden Award. Satellite Radio. Broadcasts can be heard online by visiting www.uclabruins.com. UCLA MEDIA OUTLETS Newspapers San Bernardino Sun: 2239 Gannett Parkway, San ABC7: 500 Circle Seven Drive, Glendale, CA 91201 — Los Angeles Times: 202 West First St., Los Angeles, CA Bernardino, CA 92407 — 909/386-3865. Louis Brewster 818/863-7677. B: Rob Fukuzaki, Curt Sandoval. (SE). Paper carries L.A. Daily News UCLA beat stories. 90012 — 213/237-7145. Mike Hiserman (ASE), Chris KTLA: 5800 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, CA 90028 — Foster, Zach Helfand, David Wharton (BW). 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