Tyler Honeycutt News

Late in the first half, it was time to place his grocery bag with eye holes firmly over his head.

A day after turning his personal history on its head and employing a 2-3 zone defense in a 72-70 win over Arizona State on Thursday, UCLA coach Ben Howland reiterated it was not part of a grand conspiracy or a wholesale change in his basketball strategy.

In this week's podcast , I did predict a split of this weekend's series with the Arizona schools, only I got the victorious opponents mixed up.

UCLA and Arizona, meeting at Pauley Pavilion for a Pacific 10 Conference game this morning, share a few similarities.

The start of the Pacific 10 Conference season means one thing to a UCLA basketball team that has struggled through its first dozen games.

Freshman Reeves Nelson scored a career-high 21 points to lead UCLA to a 66-49 victory over Delaware State.

Just landed in DC a little while ago and logged on here to check out the scoreboard.

Reeves Nelson scored a career-high 21 points and UCLA defeated Delaware State, 66-49, Sunday.

The sweet taste of victory is even sweeter when it follows bitter defeat. So often in the recent past, the UCLA men's basketball team has had only dessert.

Nikola Dragovic led UCLA with 17 points as the Bruins went on to defeat Colorado State 75-63 on Tuesday night UCLA didn't take the lead in the second half until Reeves Nelson hit a pair of free throws with 6:21 left.

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.

Malcolm Lee scored a career-high 29 points but the Bruins still fall to Notre Dame in South Bend, 84-73. Lee hit 11 of 17 from the field including 4 of 6 from beyond the arc as he begins to show the promise many expected from him this season.

Sometimes a five-game losing streak is more than a five-game losing streak. Sometimes it's a wake-up call.

Game by game, Tyler Honeycutt is rounding into form. The UCLA freshman forward, coming off a stress reaction in his shin and a sore back, has brought a bit of energy to the sometimes listless Bruins, who broke a five-game skid with a 100-68 win over New Mexico State on Tuesday.

UCLA is paying the price this season for its three consecutive Final Four appearances.

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.

Malcolm Lee led five players in double figures with a career-high 20 points and UCLA defeated New Mexico State 100-68 Tuesday night to end a five-game losing streak.

Miss St. routs UCLA Jarvis Varnando #32 of the Mississippi State Bulldogs shoots between Reeves Nelson #11 and Tyler Honeycutt #32 of the UCLA Bruins in the John Wooden Classic on December 12, 2009 at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California.

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.