Nikola Dragovic News

Malcolm Lee was sloppy with the ball and a little off on his shooting, but found a way to contribute with 16 pts and 7 boards Browse more photos>> For a while tonight it was looking like same old story for this year's UCLA Bruins .

Nikola Dragovic led UCLA with 17 points as the Bruins went on to defeat Colorado State 75-63 on Tuesday night.

UCLA guard Jerime Anderson, who fouled out, reacts on the bench as his team gets beaten by Portland, 74-47, at the 76 Classic in Anaheim on Nov.

The UCLA Bruins rushed out of Purcell Pavilion on Saturday to catch a plane 90 minutes away in Chicago.

Well the at least on the scoreboard the conventional wisdom turned out to be true.

There's no escaping it, not even when Malcolm Lee goes to class, hoping to focus on world culture or history.

They all saw it coming but tried to look away. Not to hide from it or deny it, just to hope fate or fortune might look favorably on the UCLA basketball team, and that it might not be so bad after all.

Well looky here. The Bruins finally FINALLY cruise to an easy win during non conference season by blowing out a hapless New Mexico State team in Pauley.

As UCLA forward Nikola Dragovic attempts to find his confidence - and from that, his shot - coach Ben Howland gave him his vote on Monday.

UCLA combined porous defense with poor shooting as it was embarrassed at the John R. Wooden Classic, 72-54, by Mississippi State The Bruins shot just 4 of 20 on three-pointers for a measly 20%. What compounded this obtuse statistic is that it accounted for almost a third of their shot attempts.

UCLA coach Ben Howland was downright embarrassed by the Bruins' latest discouraging loss.

It is difficult for most people, including Sherron Collins, to look at Xavier Henry and see a freshman.

This has been a Murphy's Law kind of year for the UCLA Bruins' basketball program thus far.

Markieff Morris and Xavier Henry combined for nearly half of top-rated Kansas's points Sunday in a 73-61 Jayhawks victory over UCLA.

In preparing for his team's blue-blooded showdown against UCLA on Sunday, Kansas coach Bill Self actually dusted off the tape from the Bruins' 68-55 Elite Eight victory over the Jayhawks in 2007.

Two of the most storied mena s basketball programs will battle in the Big 12/Pac-10 Hardwood Series when No.

UCLA looked young and inexperienced in starting the season 2-1 with a loss to Cal State Fullerton.

Make a list of everything that has gone wrong for UCLA just four weeks into the basketball season.

After dropping its opener against Cal State Fullerton, UCLA tries to build upon two straight wins when it begins play tonight in the 76 Classic tournament in Anaheim against the Portland Pilots at approximately 8:00 PM.

UCLA finished the 76 Classic tournament with a disastrous exclamation point, losing in the seventh place-game to Long Beach St., 79-68. The Bruins, now 2-4, lost to the 49ers for the first time in history in the debacle.