The UCLA Bruins will play their third of four games on their current road trip tonight in Palo Alto against Stanford.
So far, it’s been a really bad trip for the Bruins. After a great homestand to end January, UCLA went into Tucson and lost to the Wildcats by ten points. Then, on Saturday night, they fell in triple overtime to Arizona State. The Bruins fell to #12 in the country yesterday really as a result of the ASU loss because the Arizona loss wouldn’t have knocked them out of the Top Ten by itself, but the combination of back-to-back losses, one of which was to a down Sun Devil team, forced them to fall further.
Tonight, the road trip continues and, this time, it will be Stanford looking for payback after UCLA delivered an embarrassing win over the Cardinal to end the final January homestand.
It’s hard to know which Stanford team will show up tonight. On one hand, there is the team which has beaten Oregon once and Southern Cal twice. Then, there’s the team which lost to Colorado, got crushed by Arizona and lost to Washington by three points.
If the team that beat Southern Cal shows up, tonight’s game could be a brawl, but if the team that rolled over for the Wildcats comes to Pauley tonight, the game could be over by the first half.
Ultimately, I think that’s what it will come down to. If the Cardinal come to Westwood tonight and don’t play with intensity, this game could be over by halftime as long as UCLA doesn’t let them back into the game in the second half like they did against Colorado twice.
We all know that it was the team that rolled over for the Wildcats that showed up to Pauley. That leaves a new question for tonight’s game. Which Bruin team will show up to Maples Pavilion?
Will it be the team that crushed Stanford in Westwood or will it be the team that got swept in Arizona?
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Stanford's student fans have always had the lamest chants. "You can't do that." What? I'll take the F Campbell and F Juzang jokers down in Tuscon over these Smirnoff Ice drinking Altoid snorting jokers any day.
I guess when you only have about 4000 fans it's easier to hear the 3 hecklers talking about Riley's trip to china in asian accents. But I don't see him spitting into the crowd. Where's Mac?
I hate this let Campbell dribble the clock down and take a desperation shot business… it happens a lot and he’s not the guy that should be shooting desperation shots. He’s the shortest player on the court for goodness sake!!!!!
Go Bruins, too late for me!
Too players out tonight - Watson and Clark
Riley already looks terrible
but Juzang looks good
Stanford appears to have a dwarf at point guard
Campbell is being exploited on the defensive end every play so far
Actually jaylen Clark looks like he’s about to check in?
I guess we are going to see how much triple OT took out of the team.
I have a bad feeling about this game. Teams are figuring out how to slow down ucla offense after strong starts
We have given up open looks but Stanford has also hit some tough shots. Hopefully we can make our open looks tonight, unlike at ASU.
Clark with the bucket! So glad to see him!
Tyger!
gotta love the Myles Johnson pump fake under the basket with nobody within 10 feet of him
This is not going to be like last time. We will need to fight hard and crank up the defense.
Where did our defense go?
3 straight wide-open misses by ucla, but Juzang makes the contested layup.
Phantom foul on Kyman.
Allowing 50% shooting isn’t going to do it. UCLA shit worse as asu game went on and allowed asu to get better… let’s hope this isn’t a rerun
Stanford's student fans have always had the lamest chants. "You can't do that." What? I'll take the F Campbell and F Juzang jokers down in Tuscon over these Smirnoff Ice drinking Altoid snorting jokers any day.
Jaime--great move!
Wow Campbell to Jaime for an SCTop10 play!
They cleaned up the defense to end the half… need to start the second half the same way
Great finish to that half!
I guess when you only have about 4000 fans it's easier to hear the 3 hecklers talking about Riley's trip to china in asian accents. But I don't see him spitting into the crowd. Where's Mac?
The bench points for ucla is a big difference right now. UCLA depth gives a lot of teams problems
Bernard with 3rd foul quick
Those missed layups hurt
Very bad start to the second half
Wow. Bad start for Jaime. Turnover and 2 misses.
Why the instant pull for Clark?
That first 3 minutes was giving me flashbacks to asu… an 11-0 run will help change that
UCLA can’t stop them again… part of basketball is runs, but this unit on the floor can’t play defense together
Need to stop the offensive rebounds. Giving Stanford too many chances.
Tyger forcing the turnover
Jaylen Clark has turned this game around.
Cody Riley posting almost a complete goose egg this game
The UCLA fans are louder than the Stanford ones!
Love the ucla chants on the road!
We need Clark back in.
Riley always has the absolutely worst calls against him… apparently it’s against the rules for him to stand there
Great D by Clark!
I hate this let Campbell dribble the clock down and take a desperation shot business… it happens a lot and he’s not the guy that should be shooting desperation shots. He’s the shortest player on the court for goodness sake!!!!!
Stanford shot almost 54%!!! UCLA needs defense
Clark is a stud!
Wasn't always pretty, but a conference road win is a conference road win.