Jaime Jaquez Jr. scores 24 in No. 4 UCLA’s win over Marquette

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MILWAUKEE — Jaime Jaquez Jr. had 24 points and 11 rebounds to assistance No. 4 UCLA decision Marquette 67-56 connected Saturday nighttime successful a crippled that was pushed backmost respective hours owed to the Bruins’ formation problems.

UCLA (8-1) showed nary evident signs of rust successful its archetypal crippled since its 73-61 triumph implicit Colorado connected Dec. 1. UCLA was expected to play astatine Washington connected Dec. 5, but the Huskies had to forfeit that crippled owed to COVID-19 issues wrong their program.

Johnny Juzang and Tyger Campbell had 12 points each for UCLA, which grabbed power early. Campbell besides had 8 assists and 5 rebounds.

Marquette’s Greg Elliott scored a career-high 22 points disconnected the bench. Justin Lewis had 12 points and 9 rebounds but missed each 7 of his 3-point attempts. Darryl Morsell added 11 points for Marquette (8-3).

Marquette spent astir of the archetypal fractional misfiring from 3-point range, which was peculiarly troublesome since 9 of Marquette’s archetypal 11 field-goal attempts were from 3.

Late successful the archetypal half, Marquette trailed 33-10 connected 3 of 26 shooting but closed connected an 11-2 tally that included a trio of Gregg Elliott 3-pointers to spell into the locker country down 35-21.

Marquette chopped the borderline to 47-36 connected different Elliott 3-pointer with 18:58 left, but the Golden Eagles wouldn’t get the shortage into azygous digits until the game’s last minute.

UCLA changeable 36.4% from the tract compared to Marquette’s 33.3%.

Originally scheduled to instrumentality spot astatine 1:30 p.m., the crippled was moved to 7 hours aboriginal due to the fact that UCLA’s formation had to beryllium diverted Friday to Denver owed to a cracked windshield. The Bruins flew retired of Denver aboriginal Saturday morning.

BIG PICTURE

UCLA: The Bruins were successful power throughout, outrebounding Marquette 48-37 and having a 19-7 borderline successful second-chance points.

Marquette: The Golden Eagles person faced 4 Top 25 teams this season, losing 3 of them. The lone triumph was a one-point triumph implicit then-No. 10 Illinois connected Nov. 15. … Elliott changeable 6 of 9 from 3-point range, but his teammates were a combined 2 of 24. Elliott scored 14 points successful a span of 5 minutes midway done the game. Before Saturday, Elliott had scored 23 points each season.

RARE TRIP

Saturday marked the archetypal clip UCLA has faced Marquette successful Milwaukee since Dec. 18, 1964, during Al McGuire’s debut play arsenic Marquette’s coach. UCLA leads the all-time bid 4-0. Marquette mislaid 69-60 astatine UCLA precisely a twelvemonth ago.

POLL IMPLICATIONS

No. 1 Purdue mislaid this week. If No. 2 Baylor falls to No. 6 Villanova connected Sunday, UCLA astatine slightest ought to determination into the apical three.