UCLA’s chances rest on young shoulders (Los Angeles Times)

Posted November 20, 2008 at 1:00 am

Fourth-ranked Bruins have four veterans in starting lineup, but it will be play of newcomers Drew Gordon, Jrue Holiday, J’mison Morgan, Malcolm Lee and Jerime Anderson that determines how far they go.

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Ben Ball Roundup: Prairie View/Miami (OH) Game Notes & Recruiting Update (Bruins Nation)

Posted November 13, 2008 at 4:00 am

So the basketball season is underway. Reading Ty’s post game thoughts and the comment threads it sounds like we played a typical season opener against an out manned opponent. Per the LAT report today Bruins got it going with their defense and were helped out by contributions from DG and ML:

Defense was no problem in the first half against a smaller …

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Opening Night: Reinforcing The Tenets of Ben Ball (Bruins Nation)

Posted November 12, 2008 at 4:00 am

So the Ben Ball opening night is here. Many of you who are lucky to live in Southern California have already gotten a little taste of this year’s version of Ben Ball warriors in our first two exhibition games. Tonight few more will join the party via ESPNU as the season gets underway for real against Prairie View A&M. For the game preview please …

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Bruins’ freshmen impress (Press Enterprise News Blog)

Posted November 4, 2008 at 10:34 am

UCLA coach Ben Howland, predictably, was grumpily satisfied with his team’s performance in Monday night’s 86-58 exhibition victory over Cal Baptist.

“Overall, I was happy that we got out of that game healthy,” he said. “Last year we lost Darren (Collison) to a knee injury in the first game. … We have lots of things to work on, like executing on offense. On defense we …

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Tags: Ben Howland, J'Mison Morgan, Josh Shipp, Jrue Holiday, Nikola Dragovic, ucla

Aboya’s role (Daily News - Inside UCLA with Brian Dohn)

Posted October 30, 2008 at 4:45 pm

UCLA hoops coach Ben Howland said Alfred Aboya was the starting center, but if he was in the game with freshmen J’mison Morgan or Drew Gordon, he would play power forward while one of the freshmen played center….

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More BB tidbits (Daily News - Inside UCLA with Brian Dohn)

Posted October 15, 2008 at 5:13 pm

UCLA coach Ben Howland said freshmen Drew Gordon and J’mison Morgan would backup Alfred Aboya at center, and Gordon and Nikola Dragovic (if healthy) would backup James Keefe at power forward. Howland added foul trouble, or injuries, could mean using…

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Updates from UCLA basketball (OC Register UCLA Blog)

Posted October 15, 2008 at 5:04 pm

The Bruins inaugurated the upcoming season with their annual media day at Pauley Pavilion. Here are some of the highlights and news tidbits from the day:

* The team has had two one-hour practices, when it began blending in the five freshmen. Its regular practice schedule starts Friday.
* Coach Ben Howland already is a bit concerned […]

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Answers (cont.), Part XIX (Daily News - Inside UCLA with Brian Dohn)

Posted October 11, 2008 at 8:32 am

Morning, folks. It’s back to the answers. There will be five sets of them today, and here is the 19th set of answers overall:…

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Answers, Part IV (Daily News - Inside UCLA with Brian Dohn)

Posted October 10, 2008 at 10:15 am

Here is the fourth grouping:…

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No Love (Daily News - Inside UCLA with Brian Dohn)

Posted October 8, 2008 at 8:33 pm

Freshman J’Mison Morgan has plenty of work to do, according to Ben Howland. “Morgan has size, but he needs to get better with his conditioning,” Howland said. “He’s below average where he needs to be. It’s a different level of…

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Answers, Part XVIII (Daily News - Inside UCLA with Brian Dohn)

Posted September 19, 2008 at 7:45 pm

Here is the 18th set:…

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Answers, Part II (Daily News - Inside UCLA with Brian Dohn)

Posted September 5, 2008 at 8:13 am

Here is the second set of answers:…

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Answers, Part III (Daily News - Inside UCLA with Brian Dohn)

Posted August 29, 2008 at 11:15 am

I know some folks asked for an open forum during games to chat with others. I will set up a several posts for discussions a few hours prior to the game, one for the first half, one at half time…

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Answers, Part III (Daily News - Inside UCLA with Brian Dohn)

Posted July 25, 2008 at 11:30 am

Here is the third grouping:…

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Answers, Part II (Daily News - Inside UCLA with Brian Dohn)

Posted July 18, 2008 at 12:46 pm

Here is the second set of answers:…

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Jrue Holiday update (Daily News - Inside UCLA with Brian Dohn)

Posted July 17, 2008 at 9:48 am

Daily News staffer Ramona Shelburne ran into UCLA freshman Jrue Holiday at the Gatorade national player of the year award ceremony Wednesday. He said he took took 2 months off to rest after HS season but is on campus now,…

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Evaluating UCLA’s chances with Stover (Press Enterprise News Blog)

Posted July 16, 2008 at 5:01 pm

It seems like a lot of people are expecting Anthony Stover to quickly pounce on UCLA’s scholarship offer, but after talking to his AAU coach, Robert Icart, this afternoon, I don’t believe that’s likely.
Stover plans to take at least a few official visits in the fall prior to making his decision. UCLA is definitely one of the programs the 6-foot-10 center will strongly …

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Ben Ball News & Notes (Bruins Nation)

Posted July 7, 2008 at 4:00 am

Last week Rye posted the tentative Ben Ball schedule for 2008-09 season which listed UCLA’s participation in the Coaches v. Cancer tournament. Rye mentioned that Duke and Michigan will most likely join UCLA in that tournament. Jeff Eisenberg from the Press Enterprise posted more information on the topic:

For those curious who UCLA might be playing in the 16-team Coaches vs. Cancer tournament next …

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Bruin Recruiting: Prep News Roundup (6/30) (Bruin Basketball Report)

Posted July 3, 2008 at 10:35 pm

By Bruin Basketball Report Prep News Roundup is published every Monday. Commits J’Mison Morgan attended his first class at UCLA, meaning he is officially enrolled in school. Morgan was released from his letter of intent with LSU and signed scholarship papers with UCLA but those weren’t binding until he attended…

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