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RE: UC / UCLA Basketball home & home starting next season
(05-11-2017 03:43 PM)rtaylor Wrote: (05-11-2017 03:35 PM)chatcat Wrote: (05-11-2017 01:07 PM)Bearcat2012 Wrote: and BOOM....
May 11, 2017
CINCINNATI – The University of Cincinnati men’s basketball team will start a home-and-home series with Pac-12 Conference member UCLA beginning in 2017-18, the two programs announced Thursday.
UCLA will play host to Cincinnati on Dec. 16, 2017 at Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles. Cincinnati will welcome UCLA to newly renovated Fifth Third Arena on Dec. 19, 2018. Television and tip-time information will be announced at a later date.
“UCLA is a great series for Cincinnati and our fans,” UC head coach Mick Cronin said. “(UCLA head coach) Steve (Alford) and I have great respect for each other. Because of their success and history, Steve can choose from many schools for nonconference opponents. We appreciate the opportunity to play a nationally televised home-and-home series with them.
“We continue to work hard to play these type of games for our tournament résumé and our fans,” Cronin said. “Most importantly, we want our players and recruits to know that we are committed to playing the best teams in the country.”
The two teams met in the second round of the NCAA Tournament last season in Sacramento, Calif., with the Bruins claiming a 79-67 victory on Mar. 19.
The Cincinnati-UCLA series is tied 2-2. Two of the other three meetings also have come in the NCAA Tournament. The Bearcats earned a 72-70 win in the 1962 national semifinal in Louisville, Ky., en route to winning their second consecutive national title. UCLA outlasted Cincinnati 105-101 in double overtime in a 2002 second round matchup in Pittsburgh, Pa. The only regular-season meeting in the series resulted in an 82-76 Bearcats win at the Los Angeles Sports Arena on Dec. 18, 1965.
Cincinnati's 2017-18 squad features the return of its top three scorers from last season's team that posted the second-most wins in school history (30-6), tied the school mark for conference wins (16-2) and advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the seventh consecutive year.
UCLA wrapped up its fourth season under Alford in 2016-17 at 31-5 overall, finishing third in the Pac-12 with a 15-3 league mark. The Bruins welcome a highly touted recruiting class for 2017-18.
// SERIES HISTORY: SERIES TIED 2-2
Date – Result
Mar. 23, 1962 – Cincinnati won 72-70 in the national semifinals of the NCAA Tournament at Freedom Hall in Louisville, Ky.
Dec. 19, 1965 – Cincinnati won 82-76 at the Los Angeles Sports Arena in Los Angeles
Mar. 17, 2002 – UCLA won 105-101 in double overtime in the second round of the NCAA Tournament at Mellon Arena in Pittsburgh, Pa.
Mar. 19, 2017 – UCLA won 79-67 in the second round of the NCAA Tournament at Golden 1 Center in Sacramento, Calif.
// NOTABLES
The two programs have combined for 3,606 wins in their history. UCLA ranks seventh in the nation with 1,848 wins while Cincinnati is listed 16th with 1,756 victories.
Cincinnati was the first school in NCAA Tournament history to make five consecutive Final Four appearances (1959-63). UCLA soon after broke that mark with 10 consecutive appearances (1967-76). Duke is the only other school to go to as many as five consecutive Final Fours (1988-92).
Cincinnati is 27-17 all-time against current members of the Pac-12 Conference: Arizona (0-3), Arizona State (1-2), California (3-4), Colorado (7-1), Oregon (2-0), Oregon State (4-2), Stanford (2-1), UCLA (2-2), USC (0-0), Utah (3-1), Washington (3-1) and Washington State (0-0).
http://www.gobearcats.com/sports/m-baskb...17aae.html
USC 0-0, whoa, wait a minute, I know UC has played USC.
Yep. That is wrong. We played them when Huggins was here.
We are 3-3 all time against USC ; we beat them two years in a row in the nineties. Most of the other meetings were back in the sixties and seventies.
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