UCLA men’s basketball bounces back by routing UNLV

UCLA’s archetypal 4 changeable attempts were 3-pointers. The archetypal 2 missed.

For a moment, it seemed similar the Bruins’ shooting woes were inactive lingering. They were inactive successful Las Vegas, aft all, conscionable 4 days removed from their mediocre show against top-ranked Gonzaga.

The adjacent 2 3s didn’t adjacent interaction the rim.

Catch and sprout for Jules Bernard, close successful beforehand of the UNLV bench. Swish.

Next clip down, Johnny Juzang changeable a modulation 3 that snapped consecutive done the net.

It was portion of a 14-2 tally the Bruins started the crippled with en way to a 73-51 triumph implicit the Runnin’ Rebels connected Saturday day astatine Thomas & Mack Center to decorativeness the team’s three-game roadworthy travel successful Las Vegas.

UCLA (6-1) had 4 players people successful treble figures. Bernard led each scorers with 18 points connected 6-of-9 shooting with 4 rebounds and 4 assists successful 33 minutes, including 3 3-pointers. Juzang had 12 points and 9 rebounds. Jaime Jaquez Jr. had 12 points and 5 assists and Tyger Campbell added 15 points.

“We had a batch to deliberation astir aft our past game,” Bernard said astir the nonaccomplishment to Gonzaga. “We had a time disconnected to truly deliberation astir our game, and what we needed to enactment on. We had 2 truly bully practices and I deliberation the gait we played successful signifier truly led into the crippled and we came retired with a accelerated start.”

UCLA led for 39 minutes of the game, showing a almighty premix of the bully shooting it’s susceptible of and the suffocating defence manager Mick Cronin demands.

“I told the guys it was bully to person my squad back,” Cronin said. “It’s been since past twelvemonth wherever we played that benignant of defense. We had immoderate spirited practices, talked a batch astir what it takes to beryllium a bully team. We talked astir what we gotta bash to triumph a pugnacious roadworthy crippled – it starts with our defense.”

UNLV changeable conscionable 30.4% from the tract and was outrebounded 47-25 by the Bruins.

UNLV (4-3) brought the crippled to wrong 24-19 aft erstwhile Pasadena High standout Bryce Hamilton had a 3-pointer and dunk. But the Bruins utilized much of its 3-point shooting to balloon the pb again. Campbell came disconnected a surface to marque it 29-20 with 5:35 to play successful the archetypal half.

The Bruins changeable 6 for 11 from beyond the arc successful the archetypal half. Some of that occurrence came from feeding Jaquez Jr. successful the post, an inside-out doctrine usually tally done injured elder guardant Cody Riley.

Jaquez has the quality to beryllium an wrong beingness with his spot and accomplishment set, but helium besides felt the beingness of the wrong Saturday erstwhile helium was grunting for a antiaircraft rebound and got caught with a Myles Johnson elbow that chopped him open. A classical lawsuit of affable fire.

Jaquez fell to the level and bled earlier trainers took him backmost to the locker country to spot it up. UCLA followed Jaquez soon after, taking a 37-22 pb into halftime.

Jaylen Clark started the 2nd fractional for Jaquez, though Jaquez did instrumentality to the crippled with a tiny bandage implicit his near eye.

“I was blessed with the team’s competitory toughness,” Cronin said.

UCLA’s 2nd fractional was much astir defence than it was astir shooting. The Bruins made lone 2 3-pointers, but held UNLV to conscionable 8 makes, a 33% clip. Cronin was besides pleased with the mode his squad chopped backmost connected the turnovers.

“I told the guys astatine halftime we needed to instrumentality amended attraction of the ball,” Cronin said. “We lone had 2 turnovers successful the 2nd half.”

Bernard deed a 3-pointer to headdress a 9-0 tally for the Bruins to instrumentality a 55-37 pb with 8:50 to play. UCLA’s largest pb of the crippled came with conscionable nether a infinitesimal near astatine 72-48.

“I thought we played a bully antiaircraft game, and followed the crippled program well,” Juzang said.

UCLA volition play its archetypal Pac-12 Conference crippled against Colorado (5-1) astatine 6:30 p.m. Wednesday astatine Pauley Pavilion.