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Six Wildcats scored in double figures Saturday and Villanova cruised to an 89-69 rout of UCLA in the second round of the NCAA Tournament at Philadelphia. The bigger, stronger Wildcats raced away from a 4-4 tie to lead 44-31 at the half. Villanova forced 19 turnovers and won the battle of the boards by a 39-26 margin. Dante Cunningham's 18 points and 10 rebounds paced Villanova. Corey Fisher scored 13 with three rebounds and four assists. Reggie Redding also scored 13 with six rebounds, four...

Josh Shipp scored 16 points Thursday and UCLA survived a dramatic comeback to nip Virginia Commonwealth 65-64 in the NCAA Tournament's first round. The sixth-seeded Bruins held a nine-point lead with 4 minutes to play and wound up having to play tremendous defense to keep the 11th-seeded Rams from pulling out a victory at the buzzer. UCLA had only a one-point lead when it committed a shot-clock violation with 12 seconds to go, thus giving Virginia Commonwealth an opportunity to pull out the...

Josh Shipp had 28 points Saturday to lead 20th-ranked UCLA to a 94-68 win over Oregon that kept the Bruins in the Pac-10 regular-season race, if only briefly. UCLA (24-7, 13-5 Pac-10) needed unranked Washington State to upset No. 13 Washington to earn a share of its fourth straight conference, but the Washington Huskies beat their in-state rival Cougars 67-60 Saturday to wrap up their first outright Pac-10 title. Darren Collison had 19 points for UCLA, which closed out its regular season...

Josh Shipp scored 11 points during UCLA's 15-0 run to close the first half Thursday and the 17th-ranked Bruins coasted to a 79-54 victory over Oregon State. UCLA kept alive its hopes of sharing the Pacific-10 championship with Washington. The Bruins trail Washington by one game with a contest remaining in the league race. UCLA finishes its regular season Saturday at home against Oregon and Washington will be at home against Washington State. The Beavers got a 3-pointer from Lathen Wallace...

Darren Collison had 22 points and No. 19 UCLA took sole possession of second place in the Pac-10 Saturday night with a 72-68 victory over California. Josh Shipp, Nikola Dragovic and Alfred Aboya had 12 points apiece, while Aboya grabbed nine rebounds and Dragovic added seven boards for the Bruins (22-7, 11-5 Pac-10). Jerome Randle finished with 20 points and eight assists, while Patrick Christopher had 16 points and Theo Robertson scored 14 for the Golden Bears (21-8, 10-6). The Bruins went...

Alfred Aboya made two free throws with 13 seconds to play Thursday that wrapped up No. 19 UCLA's tougher-than-expected 76-71 win over Stanford. Stanford is in next-to-last place in the Pacific-10 Conference and has lost five of its last six, but the Cardinal carried the Bruins to the wire. Aboya's two foul shots gave UCLA a four-point advantage and boosted the struggling Bruins to their second victory in five outings. Josh Shipp led UCLA (21-7, 10-5 Pac-10) with 24 points, hitting 9-of-12...

Taylor Rochestie scored 14 of his 33 points in the final four minutes Saturday when Washington State upset 15th-ranked UCLA, 82-81. The upset was the Cougars' second ever victory in 52 games at UCLA. Rochestie was 5-for-7 from 3-point range and 10-for-10 from the free throw line. Klay Thompson added 15 points, five rebounds and five assists for Washington State (14-13, 6-9 Pac-10), which had lost five of six prior to Saturday. Aron Baynes scored 13 points and Caleb Forrest had 12 for the...

Josh Shipp scored 20 points Thursday and No. 15 UCLA used a late 6-0 run to pull away for a crucial 85-76 victory over 19th-ranked Washington. The Bruins owned only a two-point lead when they ran off the six consecutive points. That run ended with Darren Collison hitting two free throws that gave UCLA a 77-69 lead with 1:41 to play. Washington's fate was sealed when, trailing by six, the Huskies' Jon Brockman missed two foul shots with 41 seconds remaining. The result further tightened the...

Nic Wise scored 26 points and Jordan Hill had 22 points and 13 rebounds Saturday when Arizona posted an 84-72 victory over No. 6 UCLA. Chase Budinger added 17 points with five rebounds, five assists and five steals for the Wildcats (18-8, 8-5 Pac-10), who have won seven in a row. Darren Collison scored 26 points for UCLA (19-6, 8-4), which has lost two in a row for the first time this season. Josh Shipp added 18 points in defeat.

Derek Glasser's 3-point shot put Arizona State in front with 1:13 to play Thursday night and the No. 18 Sun Devils went on to down sixth-ranked UCLA 74-67. The Bruins failed to score a point over the final 2:34, during which they came unraveled with a shot-clock violation, an offensive foul and a technical foul. Arizona State moved within a half game of UCLA in the tightly-bunched Pac-10 Conference race, with Washington, California and USC all in the thick of the chase. After Glasser's...