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The 2024–25 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team represents the University of California, Los Angeles during the 2024–25 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Bruins are led by sixth-year head coach Mick Cronin , and play their home games at Pauley Pavilion as first year members of the Big Ten Conference .
No. 11 seed UCLA became the second First Four team to reach the Final Four, the school's first national semifinal since 2008, [65] which had also been their last trip to the Elite Eight. [66] In 2022–23 , the Bruins received a No. 2 seed in the 2023 NCAA tournament , their highest seeding since they were placed No. 1 in 2008 . [ 67 ]
The men's college basketball program of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) was founded in 1919 and is known competitively as the UCLA Bruins. The team has had 13 head coaches in its history, and they have won 11 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Men's Division I Basketball Championships, the most of any school. [1]
The 1963–64 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team won its first NCAA National Basketball Championship under head coach John R. Wooden in his 16th year at UCLA. Assistant coach Jerry Norman convinced a reluctant Wooden to use the zone press , which the team had never utilized before.
In the NCAA National Championship tournament, Alfred Aboya scored two free-throw points with 48 seconds remaining in the game to help UCLA get by VCU in the first round at the East Regional in Philadelphia's Wachovia Center. Top scorers in the game were Eric Maynor (21) for VCU and Josh Shipp (16) for UCLA.
UCLA drew nearly 140,000 first-year applications for about 6,600 spotsin fall 2021and even more applications ... UCLA has not yet said how many students it will admit as 2023-24 first-year ...
It's just 35 miles between UCLA and Whittier, the hometown of Albert Hsu. The first-year Bruin could have commuted and saved $14,000 a year in campus housing and meal plan costs.
VCU beat Duke, 79–77, on a shot by Eric Maynor with 1.8 seconds left, sending Duke out for the first time in the first round since 1996. Winthrop's highly touted offense built a 21-point second-half lead before surviving a late Notre Dame rally to win, 74–64, earning their first tournament victory in school history.