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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 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 .
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.
The 2011 NCAA tournament run by VCU is regarded by some as one of the best Cinderella runs of all time. [3] They are the first men's Division I basketball team that played in the First Four to make it to the Final Four; UCLA made a similar run ten years later. They also join the 2020–21 Bruins as the only teams in the tournament to win five ...
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 ...
The facility opened for the 1965–1966 college basketball season. The first game ever played in Pauley Pavilion was on November 27, 1965. It featured the freshmen team, led by Lew Alcindor, against the UCLA varsity squad, the two-time defending champions and pre-season No. 1 team. The freshmen, led by Alcindor's 31 points and 21 rebounds ...
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.
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.