Dylan Andrews scored a career-high 31 points yesterday against the Beavers. (Photo Credit: Jan Kim Lim/uclabruins.com)
It was the Dylan Andrews Show yesterday afternoon at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas as the sophomore guard scored almost half of the Bruins’ points against Oregon State yesterday. It was as though Andrews was determined to will UCLA into the next round.
As the Bruins advance, they will need other guys to start picking it up. To be sure, Andrews had some big time help from Adem Bona who scored 17 yesterday, but that was it. No other Bruin was in double figures.
In tournament play, this type of performance where one guy takes his team on his shoulders is sometimes needed, but the Bruins definitely need guys like Lazar Stefanovic and Sebastian Mack to pick it up for the inevitable situation where Andrews gets shut down by an opponent.
Starting Five
It looks like Dana Altman will trot out his third different startiing lineup the Bruins have seen this season.
In addition to N’Faly Dante, Jermaine Couisnard, Jackson Shelsted, and Jadrian Tracey, look for Dana Altman to start freshman Kwame Evans, Jr. instead of Kario Oquendo. That won’t mean that Oquendo won’t play more than Evans because he played 24 minutes against Utah in the regular season finale to just 22 minutes for Evans. It just means that Altman is being Altman by tinkering around with his lineup for the Ducks’ advantage.
Analysis
This afternoon’s game is going to be a tough one. These teams split the series with the home team winning each time. So, today’s neutral court game in Las Vegas gives each team something prove.
The Ducks are 3.5-point favorites to win this afternoon. That’s not much. I like UCLA’s chances against Oregon, mostly because they found a way to beat them at home most recently.
Of course, that was a month and a half ago, and it seems like years due to the Bruins’ late season skid.
The Ducks, however, finished their regular season on a low note too. They’ve lost three of their last five games, including one to UC Berkeley. They squeaked past Utah, 66-65, to wrap up the regular season, and they topped Oregon State, 78-71, for their other win.
This game feels ripe for the taking. If UCLA can generate enough offense this afternoon, look for a Bruin upset.
Listen to the Game With TMB
This afternoon’s game will be on Pac-12 Networks with Roxy Bernstein, Matt Muehlebach and Elise Woodward calling the game. If you prefer, you can listen to Josh Lewin and Tracy Murray. Just be sure to right-click on it so that you can open up another tab and have it going while you chat in the comments below. Keep in mind that there is no UCLA call on SiriusXM today. So, you can’t listen to the game there. Instead, just listen to today’s game online.
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For those without Pac-12 networks access like me in Canada, you can watch it on Pac-12 YouTube International channel free without issues. If you are in the US just download Epic Browser and use its free VPN, set it to Canada and search for Pac-12 International. Plenty of videos on how to setup up Epic Browser's VPN on YouTube which I use when traveling in the US. Last few games on the Pac-12 network so won't be available after this week, I assume.
Here’s to Dylan on fire again and Steph and Mack having better games.
We definitely have the SPTRs this afternoon - Padillo and unknown ref...
That's OK Adem shake it off.
Oh great it’s Tony Padilla’s crew
Make your free throws
Woohoo Bona!
Bona for the game's first points!
Dylan!!!
Dylan
Go Dylan
Stef!
Stef!
Stef!!!!
So far really good on offensive rebounds
Cmon Bona
Keep it up. Shoot like this equals win.
Bona fouls already but no call on the 5 seconds violation
Ref who hasn’t ever seen the Bruins calls Stef for the foul. Hope this guy isn’t trouble for us.
And Berke wonders why he gets pulled so fast. He turned the ball over the first time he touched the ball.
Let’s get a score
Come on Bruins...
Sloppy start
Need to take care of ball!!!!
Stef to the bench with 2 fouls. Not good
Bona has 2. This is disaster.
SPTRs what is this rn
Hey SPTR, what about that shoulder? We gotta beat the refs again.
Worst case scenario now…Bona and Stef sitting
Five TO. Not good.
Mack for 2 Throws!
Why is Nwuba is when Mara could be in
Playing poorly yet up by 2.
SPTRs are in full fricken bloom.
Drought 😞
Dylan broke the drought!!!
Dylan!
Come on. Rebound please
Dylan again!!! 💙💛
Kenny gets the reb!
We should be down by 6 yet we are ahead playing poorly. I think we will get it right soon.
Such a weird game. UCLA offense is bad but our defense has got them very flustered
Final score 35-30!! LOL
We got good D right now it’s just a matter of scoring when we have the ball.
At least Mack is making his FT
Mack!!!!!
Mack attack!
Nice to see Mack hitting some shots