{"id":517800,"date":"2026-03-04T09:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T09:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/517800\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T09:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T09:14:10","slug":"perry-guides-ucla-mens-basketball-past-no-9-nebraska-72-52","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/517800\/","title":{"rendered":"Perry Guides UCLA Men’s Basketball Past No. 9 Nebraska, 72-52"},"content":{"rendered":"

LOS ANGELES \u2013 Trent Perry<\/a> scored a team-best 20 points to lead the UCLA men’s basketball team past No. 9 Nebraska, 72-52, in the Bruins’ final home contest of the season on Tuesday evening at Pauley Pavilion presented by Wescom Financial.
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\nUCLA (20-10, 12-7) reached the 20-win plateau after having made 10 of 29 attempts from 3-point range. The Bruins led from start to finish against the visiting Cornhuskers (25-5, 14-5), handing Nebraska its first double-digit loss of the season.
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\nEric Dailey Jr.<\/a> finished with 14 points on 6-of-9 shooting and tallied a team-high eight rebounds. Perry totaled seven rebounds, as the Bruins outrebounded Nebraska by a 36-34 tally. Donovan Dent<\/a> had a team-leading assists and just one turnover.
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\nUCLA led Nebraska at halftime, 37-24, and never saw its second-half cushion fall to any fewer than 10 points \u2013 at 57-47, with 6:49 left in regulation. Perry and Tyler Bilodeau<\/a> helped the Bruins to separate late from Nebraska. A pull-up jump shot by Perry at the 6:26 mark and a key 3-pointer from Bilodeau with 6:17 to play handed UCLA a 62-47 cushion. From that point in the contest, UCLA’s advantage never dropped to any fewer than 15 points.
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\nNebraska’s Sam Hoiberg led the Cornhuskers with 12 points. Rienk Mast and Cale Jacobsen had 11 points each for Nebraska, which saw its three-game winning streak snapped.
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\nUCLA registered its third win over a top-10 ranked opponent at home on Tuesday. Previously, UCLA had knocked off No. 4 Purdue on Jan. 20, and No. 10 Illinois on Feb. 21. This marks the first season in which the Bruins have logged at least three wins at home over top-10 ranked teams in program history.
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\nThe Bruins logged eight steals against Nebraska, including three from Eric Freeny<\/a>. Bilodeau had a pair of steals and Dent had two steals. Freeny finished the contest with four points and five rebounds in 18 minutes.
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\nUCLA raced ahead of Nebraska in the opening half, securing a 16-7 lead in the game’s first seven minutes. A 3-point basket by Xavier Booker<\/a> with 11:57 to play in the first half pushed the Bruins ahead by a 19-9 margin. Less than a minute later, Booker sank another 3-pointer to give UCLA a 22-11 advantage.
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\nThe Bruins will close their regular-season schedule against USC on Saturday, March 7. Game time at USC’s Galen Center is set for 6 p.m. (PT). The Bruins’ contest at the Galen Center will be televised by FS1.
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\nPrior to Tuesday night’s game, UCLA honored eight senior student-athletes (including grad students), as they made their final appearance in Pauley Pavilion. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES \u2013 Trent Perry scored a team-best 20 points to lead the UCLA men’s basketball team past…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-517800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}