No. 2 UCLA rallies to beat No. 4 Villanova in overtime

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LOS ANGELES — The madness continues, oregon maybe, it’s conscionable starting each implicit again successful November.

Everything a hoops instrumentality would privation successful a top-five matchup was connected show Friday night. A raucous, sell-out assemblage draped successful white, a nationalist tv assemblage and the play of overtime arsenic second-ranked UCLA edged fourth-ranked Villanova, 86-77, astatine Pauley Pavilion.

A Jules Bernard floater successful the lane tied the people astatine 67-67 with 25 seconds near successful regulation. Then Jaylen Clark delivered stellar defence to marque Villanova’s Justin Moore miss astatine the rim with 0.2 seconds left. Clark besides grabbed the antiaircraft rebound arsenic the regularisation buzzer sounded.

It was each UCLA (2-0) successful overtime. After a brace of Villanova (1-1) escaped throws, the Bruins scored 7 consecutive points, including a 3-pointer from Jaime Jaquez Jr. to instrumentality a 74-69 pb successful the other frame. After getting to the free-throw enactment conscionable 7 times successful regulation, the Bruins made each 12 of their escaped throws successful the five-minute other league to assistance seal the win.

Johnny Juzang led each scorers with 25 points connected 9-for-24 shooting. Jaquez had 21 points and 13 rebounds, Bernard had 16 points and 9 rebounds, and Tyger Campbell added 14 points for UCLA.

UCLA finished 9 for 24 from 3-point scope and 17 for 19 from the free-throw line.

After a media timeout, Villanova’s Caleb Daniels had a two-handed dunk disconnected of an out-of-bounds play that impressed the crowd, but the oohs and aahs from the smattering of Villanova fans didn’t past long. David Singleton deed a 3-pointer to one-up Daniels’ dunk, past deed different connected the adjacent possession to unit Villanova manager Jay Wright to telephone a timeout arsenic UCLA took a 17-8 pb astatine the 10:36 people successful the archetypal half.

Singleton’s back-to-back 3s were the item of a agelong that saw the Bruins marque 7 consecutive shots, a spurt that helped them unfastened a 23-14 pb aft a Jaquez leap shot.

But Villanova got a spark of its ain from guards Collin Gillespie and Jermaine Samuels, each making 2 3-pointers during a 10-0 Wildcats tally for their archetypal pb of the game, 24-23. UCLA committed 5 of its 7 first-half turnovers successful the last 6:28, 3 coming from Juzang.

Juzang redeemed himself rapidly by scoring the last 5 points of the half, including a two-dribble, pull-up jumper from the elbow to bushed the halftime buzzer and springiness the Bruins a 32-30 pb astatine the break. But helium didn’t halt there.

The inferior showed wherefore helium was named to past year’s All-NCAA Tournament squad erstwhile helium reeled disconnected 5 consecutive baskets to commencement the 2nd half. He made 7 successful a row, including the archetypal half. It was reminiscent of the scoring runs Juzang had past March, but Villanova was not mesmerized the aforesaid mode assemblage hoops fans were.

The Wildcats started the 2nd fractional 4 for 5 from the 3-point enactment and made 11 of their archetypal 17 changeable attempts to instrumentality their largest pb of the game, 60-50, astatine the 9:24 mark. There was a agelong erstwhile Villanova made 10 of 13 shots. No substance what UCLA did offensively, the Bruins couldn’t look to dilatory the Wildcats.

Campbell made back-to-back 3-pointers astatine 1 point, but Villanova’s Jermaine Samuels came down and made one, too. UCLA trailed 63-57 with 5:20 left.

The Wildcats changeable 6 of 10 from down the arc successful the 2nd half, and 10 for 20 successful regulation.

Samuels led the Wildcats with 20 points. Gillespie finished with 18. The 2 combined for 9 of the team’s 11 3-pointers.

NOTES

The crippled was the earliest matchup by day betwixt AP top-five teams astatine a field tract successful the past of the canvass that began successful 1948-49, according to ESPN Stats & Info. It besides was the archetypal non-conference matchup betwixt 2 top-five teams successful Pauley Pavilion since March 1, 1992, erstwhile then-No. 4 UCLA mislaid to top-ranked Duke.