Reeves Nelson News

UCLA's basketball team found a way to win in spite of itself. The Bruins committed 19 turnovers and looked like a team that was thinking more about Christmas than basketball in a Tuesday-night nonconference showdown with Colorado State.

While we suffered another loss, three Bruins continue to demonstrate they are the core of this team.

Notre Dame was thrilled with its win over UCLA on Saturday, even if the Bruins are struggling this season.

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

UCLA forward James Keefe is expected to be out two to three weeks while recovering from a dislocated left shoulder, the team announced Wednesday.

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.

So just two more days to go till the Finals weeks come to and end. Bruins will get back to practices tonight to prepare for Saturday's game against Mississippi State Bulldogs.

When the UCLA players gather at Pauley Pavilion today, they can expect a different sort of film session.

If nothing else, Reeves Nelson will look a little scarier when he and his UCLA teammates face Mississippi State at the John R. Wooden Classic in Anaheim today.

When freshman Reeves Nelson envisioned life as a starter for the UCLA men's basketball team, it looked a lot different than the reality has been to this point.

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

LOS ANGELES The moral victory made a rare visit to Pauley Pavilion on Sunday, accompanied by sections full of Kansas fans who executed the eerie "Rock ...Chalk ... Jayhawk" chant when the clock was winding down.

The ultimate compliment is respect from the competition. So when preseason All-American center Cole Aldrich of Kansas calls Reeves Nelson "scrappy," it's only a good thing.

UCLA freshman forward Reeves Nelson, who was poked in the eye in the second half of the Bruins' 73-61 loss to No.

The top-ranked Kansas Jayhawks invade Pauley Pavilion to take on the struggling UCLA Bruins as part of the Big 12/Pac-10 Hardwood Series.

If the coach calls for a zone defense at some point this afternoon, that will be just fine by Jerime Anderson .

West Virginia won the 76 Classic, in what may go down as the toughest tournament this season when the bids are handed out in March.

Smith column: With Gordon's departure, the Bruins' freshman power forward should see more playing time.