{"id":275052,"date":"2025-11-10T08:47:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T08:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/275052\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T08:47:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T08:47:11","slug":"no-12-mens-basketball-to-host-west-georgia-on-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/275052\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 12 Men’s Basketball to Host West Georgia on Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nLOS ANGELES \u2013 The Bruins will host West Georgia this Monday evening inside Pauley Pavilion presented by Wescom Financial. Game time is 7 p.m. (PT). The live stream of this non-conference game will be available via Big Ten Plus (B1G+). Fans can tune into all UCLA men’s basketball games on the radio this season on AM 790 (KABC), as Josh Lewin<\/a> and Tracy Murray<\/a> will have the courtside call.

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\nGAME INFORMATION

\nVenue: Pauley Pavilion presented by Wescom

\nCapacity: 13,800

\nTipoff Time: 7:01 p.m. (PT)

\nTelevision: B1G+ (Big Ten Plus)

\nTV Talent: Nick Koop<\/a> (play-by-play), Gio Camera (analyst)

\nRadio (UCLA Audio Network): AM 790 (KABC)

\nRadio Talent: Josh Lewin<\/a> (play-by-play), Tracy Murray<\/a> (analyst)

\nSirius XM Channels: SiriusXM 84, and on the SiriusXM App<\/a>

\nLive Stats: ucla.statbroadcast.com (link here<\/a>)

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\nUCLA ON B1G+

\nThis Monday’s home contest will air on B1G+, the Big Ten Network’s subscription streaming platform, which offers access to nearly 2,500 events annually. The Bruins will be streamed on B1G+ at least twice this season (including Tuesday night’s contest). B1G+ subscriptions can be purchased directly at\u00a0www.bigtenplus.com<\/a>. Fans can subscribe to B1G+ with an annual pass ($89.99 per year) or a monthly pass ($12.99). B1G+ subscriptions can also be purchased via in-app purchase in B1G+ apps.

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\nUCLA’S TICKET INFORMATION (HOME GAMES)

\nSingle-game tickets for UCLA’s home games are on sale<\/a>. Fans can secure tickets to this Monday evening’s contest against West Georgia, and all upcoming home contests this November and December. The Bruins have 17 remaining regular-season games inside Pauley Pavilion this season.

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\nComplete ticket information about UCLA men’s basketball is available here<\/a>. Direct links to single-game ticket purchases can be viewed here<\/a>. Fans can call (310) 206-5991 or email tickets@athletics.ucla.edu<\/a> for more information. In addition, be sure to check out all of the game themes and upcoming promotions<\/a> for the Bruins’ 2025-26 season.

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\nFOURS UP FRIDAY, TICKETS

\nFans can purchase tickets through the “Fours Up Fridays” promotion, offering tickets starting at just $4 (per game) for two upcoming Friday home non-conference contests \u2013 vs. Presbyterian on Nov. 21, and against Cal Poly on Dec. 19. Fans can also purchase tickets in lower seat locations at $14, $24 and $40, respectively, for those basketball games. The “Fours Up Fridays” promotion can be accessed by clicking here<\/a>.

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\nTHE LAST TIME OUT

\n\u2013 The Bruins improved their all-time record against Pepperdine to 22-4 with a 74-63 win on Friday, Nov. 7.

\n\u2013 UCLA led Pepperdine by 19 points with under seven minutes to play and improved to 2-0 this season with the win.

\n\u2013 Four Bruins scored in double figures last Friday night, led by a 15-point and five-block effort from Xavier Booker<\/a>.

\n\u2013 UCLA shot 48.1 percent from the field against Pepperdine, including a 56.0 percentage in the second half of the game.

\n\u2013 Xavier Booker<\/a> and Skyy Clark<\/a> each made 2 of 3 attempts from 3-point distance against Pepperdine.

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\nUCLA’S SEASON OPENER

\n\u2013 Donovan Dent<\/a> scored 21 points and totaled nine assists to lead UCLA past Eastern Washington, 80-74.

\n\u2013 Five UCLA players scored in double figures as the Bruins improved to 6-1 in their last seven season-opening games.

\n\u2013 Xavier Booker<\/a> scored 14 points, tied his career high in rebounds (7) and played 29 minutes in the win.

\n\u2013 Last Monday’s season-opening contest marked the earliest start to any UCLA basketball season in the calendar year.

\n\u2013 The Bruins led by a 74-60 margin with six minutes remaining and owned a 40-33 halftime cushion.

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\nWHAT’S AHEAD?

\n\u2013 This Monday night’s matchup will mark the first-ever meeting between UCLA and West Georgia.

\n\u2013 UCLA closes a three-game stretch of home contests on Monday before this Friday’s game at Intuit Dome in Inglewood.

\n\u2013 The Bruins will play No. 13-ranked Arizona at Intuit Dome on Friday, Nov. 14, at 7 p.m. (PT).

\n\u2013 Seven of UCLA’s next 11 games will take place at Pauley Pavilion (including this Monday night’s game).

\n\u2013 UCLA’s two early-season Big Ten games will feature Washington (on the road) and Oregon (at home) in early December.

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\nKEY NOTES ABOUT UCLA

\n\u2013 The Bruins return four of their primary contributors from last season’s team. In addition, UCLA has welcomed back two redshirt players and has brought in five transfers. Three of UCLA’s top four scorers from last year’s squad have returned in seniors Tyler Bilodeau<\/a> (13.5 ppg) and Skyy Clark<\/a> (8.5 ppg) and junior Eric Dailey Jr.<\/a> (11.4 ppg).

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\n\u2013 UCLA’s five incoming transfer students include Xavier Booker<\/a> (from Michigan State), Jamar Brown<\/a> (from UMKC), Donovan Dent<\/a> (from New Mexico), Steven Jamerson II<\/a> (from San Diego) and Anthony Peoples Jr.<\/a> (from North Carolina Central). Last season, Dent secured honorable mention All-America acclaim at New Mexico (averaged 20.4 ppg, 6.4 apg).

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\n\u2013 Tyler Bilodeau<\/a> and Skyy Clark<\/a> served as UCLA’s student-athlete representatives at Big Ten Media Day in Chicago, along with head coach Mick Cronin<\/a>, on Thursday, Oct. 9. Bilodeau led the Bruins in 3-point percentage last season, knocking down 40.0 percent of his long-range attempts (38\/95). Clark was second in 3-point percentage last year, making 48 of 121 attempts (39.7 percent). Clark shot 43.3 percent (29-for-67) from 3-point range in the team’s final 15 games.

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\n\u2013 Donovan Dent<\/a> (point guard), Eric Dailey Jr.<\/a> (small forward) and Tyler Bilodeau<\/a> (power forward) have each been named to 20-person positional watch lists at the start of the season. Dent is on the Bob Cousy Award watch list, while Dailey Jr. has been tabbed to the Julius Erving Award watch list, and Tyler Bilodeau<\/a> to the Karl Malone Award watch list.

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\n\u2013 Senior Donovan Dent<\/a> totaled 224 assists while at New Mexico last season, averaging 6.4 assists per game (which ranked second in the Mountain West Conference and No. 13 in the nation). Senior Skyy Clark<\/a> registered 91 assists in 34 games for the Bruins last season, averaging 2.7 assists per game. He posted a team-leading 2.4 assist-turnover ratio as a junior.

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\n\u2013 Last season, UCLA went 12-5 over the final 17 games after a four-game losing streak in early-to-mid January. Following losses at Maryland and Rutgers on Jan. 10 and Jan. 13, UCLA won seven consecutive games (five of those at home). The Bruins produced a 15-2 record at home and went 8-9 in 17 games played on the road or at neutral-site venues.

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\n\u2013 For the fourth consecutive season (last season), UCLA led its conference in scoring defense. The Bruins averaged 65.2 points allowed per game in 34 contests, which ranked No. 22 in the nation. UCLA led all Big Ten teams in scoring defense, finishing the year just ahead of Michigan State (67.1 ppg) and Maryland (67.2 ppg) in the scoring defense category.

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\n\u2013 Coach Cronin secured career victory No. 500 in the Bruins’ 69-61 win over Ohio State in Pauley Pavilion presented by Wescom Financial on Sunday, Feb. 23. Cronin helped UCLA to three more wins in 2024-25, pushing his career win total up to 503. He currently leads all coaches nationwide, age 55 and younger, in total NCAA Division I victories (505).

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\n\u2013 Through games played from 2010-11 through 2024-25, Coach Cronin is tied for the fifth-most victories of any NCAA Division I coach (373 wins in a 15-year span). He’s tied on that list with Michigan State’s Tom Izzo (373 wins) and trails Mark Few of Gonzaga (451), Bill Self of Kansas (426), John Calipari of Arkansas (397) and Randy Bennett of Saint Mary’s (379).

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\nFIVE OR MORE BLOCKS

\nJunior forward\/center Xavier Booker<\/a> became UCLA’s first player with at least five blocks in a game since Aday Mara<\/a> registered five blocks last season in an NCAA Tournament win over Utah State (March 20, 2025, in Lexington, Ky.). Booker had 15 points and five blocks on Friday in the Bruins’ 74-63 win against Pepperdine. He became the Bruins’ first player with at least 15 points, five rebounds and five blocked shots in a game since Dec. 30, 2023, when then-sophomore Adem Bona registered 15 points, 11 rebounds and five blocks in a 64-59 loss at Oregon in a Pac-12 contest.

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\nPRESEASON RANKINGS

\nFor the second consecutive year, UCLA has opened the basketball season ranked among the top 25 teams in the AP and Coaches’ Polls. The Bruins were tabbed No. 12 in the preseason AP poll, as announced in mid-October. The Bruins are one of six programs in the Big Ten Conference to have been ranked among the AP’s top 25 teams. Also in the top 25 poll from the Big Ten are No. 7 Michigan, No. 17 Illinois, No. 22 Michigan State and No. 24 Wisconsin. Conference foes Indiana, Iowa, Ohio State, Oregon, USC and Washington have received votes in the preseason poll.

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\n20-WIN SEASON

\nWith 23 victories in 2024-25, the Bruins reached the 20-win plateau for the 47th time in 59 years (that span includes 1966-67 through 2024-25). Coach Cronin has guided UCLA to at least 20 victories in four of the past five season. In six seasons at UCLA, Coach Cronin has averaged 23.0 wins per season, including a 31-6 overall record in 2022-23. Nine of the Big Ten Conference’s 18 teams finished the 2024-25 season with at least 20 victories. Michigan State won the Big Ten’s regular-season title, posting an overall record of 30-7 and a league record of 17-3.

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\nPOSTSEASON ACTION

\nSince the NCAA Tournament expanded to include at least 64 teams in 1985, the Bruins have played 52 games during the opening week\/weekend (first and second round contests). UCLA has gone 41-11 in those 52 contests, advancing to the Sweet 16 in 17 tournaments. The Bruins have posted a record of 23-6 in the first round (this does not include any First Four contests). The Bruins lost in the First Four in 2018 and won a First Four matchup in 2021. UCLA advanced to the NCAA Tournament’s Sweet 16 in 2023 with wins over (15-seed) UNC Asheville and (7-seed) Northwestern.

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\nTOP DEFENDERS

\nThe Bruins’ program has produced some of the nation’s most talented defensive players over the past several seasons. Last year, then-senior Kobe Johnson<\/a> was honored as one of five players on the Big Ten All-Defensive Team, closing the year at No. 6 in the conference in steals per game (1.6 spg, 55 steals in 34 games). Two seasons ago (2023-24), then-sophomore Adem Bona was honored as the Pac-12 Conference’s Defensive Player of the Year. Bona led UCLA’s team that season in blocks (58 blocks, 1.8 bpg) and was second in steals (37 steals, 1.1 spg). Three seasons ago (2022-23), then-junior Jaylen Clark was honored as the Naismith Men’s Defensive Player of the Year and the NABC Defensive Player of the Year.

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\nSKYY’S THE LIMIT

\nUCLA’s Skyy Clark<\/a> closed his junior season with a team-leading 2.4 assist-turnover ratio, through all 34 games (91 assists, 38 turnovers). He joined the Bruins’ program in the summer of 2024 after having averaged a team-leading 13.2 points per game as a sophomore at Louisville in 2023-24. Clark finished with UCLA’s third-highest assist total (91) and scored at least 10 points in 13 games during his junior season. He shot 45.8 percent from the field and 39.7 percent from beyond the 3-point arc. In a pair of NCAA Tournament games, he averaged 16.0 points and shot 10-for-19 from the field.

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\nLOOKING AHEAD IN 2025-26

\nThe Bruins 31-game regular-season schedule began with an 80-74 win against Eastern Washington on Monday, Nov. 3. In all, UCLA’s 31-game regular-season schedule includes 18 home games, 10 road contests and three neutral-site games (in November and December). The Bruins’ first game away from Pauley Pavilion takes place against No. 13 Arizona this Friday night (Nov. 14) at the nearby Intuit Dome in Inglewood, Calif. The other two neutral-site contests are to take place at Chase Center in San Francisco (vs. California) and at Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle (vs. Gonzaga). UCLA’s first road game will take place in Big Ten play at Washington on Wednesday, Dec. 3.

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