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 Loyola Marymount Lions (8-0) at UCLA Bruins (5-2) No. Player GP GS MPG RPG APG PPG Sunday, Dec. 2, 2018 – 7 p.m. (PT) 13 Kris Wilkes 7 7 31.7 4.3 2.1 17.6 Los Angeles, Calif. (Pauley Pavilion presented by Wescom) 1 Moses Brown 7 7 24.0 9.9 0.7 13.1 GAME INFORMATION 4 Jaylen Hands 7 7 28.0 3.3 5.7 12.0 Venue: Pauley Pavilion presented by Wescom 5 Chris Smith 7 0 23.7 4.9 1.7 10.6 Venue Capacity: 13,800 Tipoff Time: 7:06 p.m. (PT) vs. 2018-19 SCHEDULE Television: Pac-12 Network Exhibition Game TV Talent: Anne Marie Anderson (play-by-play), Bill Walton (analyst) 8-0 5-2 Oct. 27 N.Y. Institute of Tech. P12N W 125-73 Radio (UCLA Sports Network from IMG): AM 1150 Radio Talent: Josh Lewin (play-by-play), Tracy Murray (analyst) November SIRIUS/XM Radio Channels: Ch. 137 / Ch. 197 UCLA has compiled a 15-3 all-time record against Loyola Tue. 6 Purdue Fort Wayne P12N W 96-71 Marymount, with the two schools having last met in Nov. 2011. Ch. 959 Fri. 9 Long Beach State P12N W 91-80 SIRIUS App Channel: Fri. 16 Saint Francis U P12N W 95-58 Mon. 19 Presbyterian P12N W 80-65 Thu. 22 vs. (11) Michigan State 1 FS1 L 67-87 WHAT’S AHEAD Fri. 23 vs. (7) North Carolina 1 FOX L 78-94 The Bruins have three upcoming home games against Loyola Marymount (Dec. 2), Notre Dame (Dec. 8) and Belmont (Dec. Wed. 28 Hawai’i P12N W 80-61 15) before traveling East to face Cincinnati (Dec. 19) and Ohio State in Chicago (Dec. 22). UCLA has recorded a 15-3 all- time record against LMU in a local series that dates back to the 1937-38 season. The two schools played each other from December 1937-38 through 1948-49 before resuming the non-conference series in December of 1985. LMU won the last matchup Sun. 2 Loyola Marymount P12N 7 p.m. against UCLA, defeating the Bruins in both teams’ season-opening game at the L.A. Sports Arena on Nov. 11, 2011. Sat. 8 Notre Dame ESPN2 7:30 p.m. Sat. 15 Belmont P12N 2 p.m. IMPRESSIVE STARTS: The combined record of UCLA’s upcoming three opponents is 20-2 (through games played Wed. 19 at Cincinnati ESPN2 9 p.m. (ET) Saturday, Dec. 1). LMU has gone 8-0, after an 106-50 win over Bethesda College on Thursday. Notre Dame and Belmont Sat. 22 vs. (16) Ohio State 2 CBS 2 p.m. (CT) have each gone 6-1. Belmont dropped its first game of the season on Saturday, losing at Green Bay, 100-92. Sat. 29 Liberty P12N 3 p.m. UCLA’S LEADING SCORER January Sophomore Kris Wilkes is the only UCLA player to have scored in double figures in all seven games. The 6-foot-9 guard from Thu. 3 Stanford* ESPN 8 p.m. Indianapolis, Ind., enters this Sunday’s game as the Bruins’ leading scorer (17.6 ppg). He has also averaged 4.3 rebounds Sat. 5 California* P12N 1 p.m. and 2.1 assists per game while shooting 46.5 percent from the field. The former standout at North Central High School Thu. 10 at (18) Oregon* ESPN/2/U 6 p.m. (Indianapolis) finished with 16 points, three rebounds and three assists in the Bruins’ 80-61 win over Hawai’i on Wednesday. Sun. 13 at Oregon State* FS1 7 p.m. Wilkes tallied a career-best 27 points in the team’s season-opening victory against Purdue Fort Wayne (Nov. 6). Sat. 19 at USC* CBS 1 p.m. Thu. 24 Arizona State* FS1 8 p.m. SELECT COMPANY: Kris Wilkes has been listed on the preseason watch lists for the Citizen Naismith Trophy, the John Sat. 26 Arizona* ESPN2 7 p.m. R. Wooden Award and the Lute Olson Award (all three are national player of the year awards). Wilkes is one of just 29 Wed. 30 at Washington State* P12N 7 p.m. players in the country (and one of two Pac-12 players) to have been named to all three watch lists. February CAREER-BEST PERFORMANCES Sat. 2 at Washington* ESPN/2 1 p.m. Redshirt junior Prince Ali scored a career-best 23 points last Wednesday, leading UCLA past Hawai’i (80-61). Ali made each Thu. 6 Colorado* P12N 6 p.m. of his first eight shots and each of his first five three-pointers. He finished the game having shot 9-for-11 overall and 5-for-6 Sat. 9 Utah* FOX 2 p.m. from three-point distance. In fact, Ali made each of his first four three-point attempts within the game’s first four minutes. Thu. 13 at California* P12N 7 p.m. Prior to Wednesday night, Ali’s career-high for three-pointers made was three. Sophomore Jaylen Hands had a career-high Sat. 16 at Stanford* ESPN/2/U 7 p.m. 11 assists in the victory. The 6-foot-3 guard from San Diego dished seven assists and had no turnovers in the first half. Thu. 21 Oregon State* FS1 8 p.m. Sun. 23 (18) Oregon* ESPN/2 7 p.m. CRASHING THE BOARDS Thu. 28 USC* ESPN/2/U 6 p.m. Moses Brown has averaged a team-leading 9.9 rebounds in his first seven games. He enters Sunday’s game having logged March 13.1 points per game and 2.7 blocks per game. The 7-foot-1 center from Queens, N.Y., has tallied at least 10 rebounds Thu. 7 at Colorado* ESPN/2/U 7 p.m. (MT) in five of seven games, securing a season-high 17 boards in his first collegiate game (UCLA’s 96-71 win over Purdue Fort Sat. 9 at Utah* P12N 5 p.m. (MT) Wayne on Nov. 6). Brown became UCLA’s first freshman to ever record double-doubles in his first three games, averaging 19.7 points and 13.7 rebounds in those three contests against Purdue Fort Wayne, Long Beach State and Saint Francis U. Postseason Schedule Wed.-Sat. March 13-16 Pac-12 Tournament 3 THAT’S ELITE: Moses Brown became UCLA’s first player to record at least 19 points and 17 rebounds in his collegiate Tue.-Wed. March 19-20 NCAA First Four debut since Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (then Lew Alcindor) registered a then-school-record 56 points and totaled 21 rebounds Thu.-Sun. March 21-24 NCAA 1st, 2nd Rounds in UCLA’s 105-90 win over USC on Dec. 3, 1966. Abdul-Jabbar made 23 of 32 shots from the field in that game. Thu.-Sun. March 28-31 NCAA Regional 4 FIRST TIME SINCE: Brown’s 23-point, 14-rebound and eight-block effort against Saint Francis U (Nov. 16) marked the Sat., Mon. April 6, 8 NCAA Final Four first time any UCLA player had registered at least 20 points and five blocks in a game since Jan. 22, 2000. Jerome Moiso * Pac-12 Conference games had 22 points and five blocked shots in UCLA’s 83-77 win against Arizona State in Pauley Pavilion. rankings in parenthesis are from the weekly AP poll RECORD TERRITORY: Brown had eight blocks against Saint Francis U (Nov. 16). Since UCLA began officially recording 1 Continental Tire Las Vegas Invitational, Orleans Arena (Las Vegas) 2 CBS Sports Classic, United Center (Chicago) blocks in 1978-79, only three other players have recorded at least eight blocks. Jelani McCoy set the school record with 3 Pac-12 Tournament, T-Mobile Arena (Las Vegas) 11 blocks in his seventh game of his freshman season (vs. Maryland, Nov. 9, 1995). 4 at U.S. Bank Stadium (Minneapolis, Minn.) FROM LONG DISTANCE UCLA ON SOCIAL MEDIA In each of the past two years, UCLA has shot the No. 1 percentage from three-point territory of any Pac-12 team. With Lonzo Ball and Bryce Alford in 2016-17, the Bruins shot 40.6 percent from three-point range. In 2017-18, after losing Ball and Men’s Basketball Twitter: @UCLAMBB Alford (and Isaac Hamilton and TJ Leaf), the Bruins shot 38.1 percent from three-point distance, a mark that still ranked Men’s Basketball Instagram: @UCLAMBB No. 1 in the conference. As a junior, Aaron Holiday led UCLA last season by shooting 42.9 percent from three-point territory. Men’s Basketball Facebook: /UCLAMensBasketball UCLA Athletics Twitter: @UCLAAthletics THE STREAK CONTINUES: UCLA has made at least one three-pointer in its last 628 games. That streak began after the UCLA Athletics Instagram: @UCLAAthletics Bruins went 0-for-14 from three-point range in a 78-63 loss at No. 2 Stanford on Feb. 3, 2000. The Bruins have made UCLA Athletics Facebook: /UCLAAthletics at least three 3-pointers in 175 of 180 games under sixth-year head coach Steve Alford. #GoBruins WHO HAS THE HOT HAND? Three Bruins have already made at least 10 three-pointers, through the team’s first seven games – Kris Wilkes (13), Jaylen Hands (12) and Prince Ali (12). David Singleton has made 6 of 9 three-pointers, registering the team’s best shooting percentage from three-point territory (66.7%).