(04-24-2017 04:17 PM)KnightLight Wrote:  

(04-24-2017 03:54 PM)chatcat Wrote:  

(04-24-2017 03:00 PM)KnightLight Wrote:  

(04-24-2017 02:33 PM)chatcat Wrote:  

(04-24-2017 02:05 PM)KnightLight Wrote:  That's a big get...and no doubt will be a National TV Game to also help show off the new arena (odds are the game will take place in Nov/Dec).

I'm old and memories dim over time, but didn't UC open Pauley Pavilion with UCLA back in 1965?

No. The Cinci vs UCLA game on Dec 18th game was actually played at the LA Sports Arena as part of the LA Classic. Cinci won 82-76.

Some interesting notes of the first ever game at Pauley Pavilion:

(Remember, Freshmen were not eligible to play back then as all had to be redshirted for a season).

The first game ever played in Pauley Pavilion was on November 27, 1965. It featured the freshmen team, led by Big Lew Alcindor, against the UCLA varsity squad, the two-time defending champions and pre-season No. 1 team. The freshmen, led by Alcindor's 31 points and 21 rebounds, defeated the varsity team 75-60, heralding great things to come

First visiting team was Ohio State and UCLA trounced them.

I told you my memories had dimmed. Didn't UCLA play its home games at LA Sports Arena before Pauley opened?

Maybe a few games but most of their games thru 1964-1965 took place at their 2,400 seat Men's Gym.

No that was back in the fifties; almost all home games in the sixties before Pauley were at the LA Sports Arena if you go back and check their records.