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Men's Basketball to Host Arizona State, Cal Poly This Week
December 15, 2025 | Men's Basketball
LOS ANGELES โ The Bruins (7-3) will host three games over a seven-day span, starting this Wednesday night as Arizona State (9-2) heads to Pauley Pavilion. Wednesday night's game will begin at 7:30 p.m. (PT) and will be nationally televised on FS1, with Jason Benetti and Bill Raftery on the call.
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UCLA will host Cal Poly on Friday night at 7 p.m. That contest will be televised by Big Ten Network. Next week, the Bruins will conclude their 2025 calendar schedule against UC Riverside on the afternoon of Tuesday, Dec. 23. The game between UCLA and UC Riverside is set for start at 1 p.m. (PT).
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Each of UCLA's games are available in the greater Los Angeles area on AM 790 radio (KABC), with Josh Lewin and Tracy Murray on the call.
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WEDNESDAY'S GAME INFORMATION
Venue: Pauley Pavilion presented by Wescom Financial
Capacity: 13,800
Tipoff Time: 7:40 p.m. (PT)
Television: FS1
TV Talent: Jason Benetti (play-by-play), Bill Raftery (analyst)
Radio (UCLA Audio Network): AM 790 (KABC)
Radio Talent: Josh Lewin (play-by-play), Tracy Murray (analyst)
Sirius XM Channels: SiriusXM 392, and on the SiriusXM App
Live Stats: ucla.statbroadcast.com (link here)
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UCLA'S TICKET INFORMATION (HOME GAMES)
Single-game tickets for UCLA's home games are on sale. The Bruins have 12 remaining regular-season games inside Pauley Pavilion this season, including this Wednesday's contest against Arizona State. Fans can view complete ticket information about UCLA men's basketball by clicking here. Direct links to single-game ticket purchases can be viewed here. Fans can call (310) 206-5991 or email tickets@athletics.ucla.edu for more information. In addition, be sure to check out all of the game themes and upcoming promotions for this season.
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FOURS UP FRIDAY
Fans can purchase tickets starting at just $4 for this Friday night's home contest against Cal Poly (Friday, Dec. 19, at 7 p.m.). This exclusive "Fours Up" Friday promotion is only available for Friday's game. Fans interested in purchasing these tickets can click on this link for more details.
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JOIN THE BRUINS AS A "STUDENT FOR A DAY"
The UCLA men's basketball program is offering select ticket packages where fans can purchase student section tickets for the three upcoming home games โ this Wednesday against Arizona State, this Friday versus Cal Poly, and Tuesday, Dec. 23, as UCLA hosts UC Riverside at 1 p.m. Tickets behind the basket will cost $19. More details regarding UCLA's "Student for a Day" promotion are available here.
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UCLA IN DECEMBER
โข The Bruins have gone 2-1 this month, with Big Ten wins at Washington (Dec. 3) and against Oregon (Dec. 6)
โข Through Sunday's games, UCLA ranked No. 3 among Big Ten teams in scoring defense (66.7 points per game).
โข In the Bruins' past three contests, Tyler Bilodeau has averaged 19.7 points per game on 52.9 percent shooting.
โข Skyy Clark has shot 11 for 18 from 3-point distance in the Bruins' three December contests (61.1 percent).
โข Most recently, the Bruins lost to No. 8-ranked Gonzaga, 82-72, at Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle on Saturday, Dec. 13.
โข UCLA has three games remaining this month, all at home, against Arizona State, Cal Poly and UC Riverside.
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BRUINS VS. SUN DEVILS
โข UCLA has compiled an all-time record of 76-24 in 100 total meetings against Arizona State.
โข The Bruins defeated ASU, 59-47, in the final regular-season meeting in 2023-24 (UCLA's last official Pac-12 game).
โข Since the start of the 2019-20 season, UCLA has gone 8-2 against Arizona State (and 8-0 in Pauley Pavilion).
โข The Bruins and ASU regularly competed against each other in conference play from 1978-79 through 2023-24.
โข As a return trip in a home-and-home series, UCLA is scheduled to play at Arizona State in Tempe, Ariz., next season.
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UCLA AGAINST CAL POLY
โข UCLA has gone 6-1 in seven past meetings against Cal Poly, with the first-ever contest taking place on Jan. 28, 1949.
โข The Bruins secured an 88-83 win over Cal Poly, in Pauley Pavilion, when these two schools last met on Nov. 15, 2015.
โข Cal Poly overcame an 18-point second-half deficit to defeat UCLA, 70-68, in Pauley Pavilion on Nov. 25, 2012.
โข Since the 1950s, UCLA and Cal Poly have faced each other three times, with the Bruins winning two of those games.
โข Cal Poly is led by second-year head coach Mike DeGeorge, who steered Cal Poly to a 16-19 record last season.
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LOOKING AT THE BRUINS
โข Six Bruins have averaged at least nine points per game this season, led by Tyler Bilodeau (16.6 ppg).
โข Donovan Dent (12.0 ppg) leads UCLA with 61 assists, averaging 6.8 assists per game (No. 3 in the Big Ten).
โข Skyy Clark ranks second on the team in scoring (12.2 ppg) and tied for first in the Big Ten in 3-point percentage (51.0%).
โข Eric Dailey Jr. has averaged 11.1 points and 5.1 rebounds per game in nine contests (52.1% shooting overall).
โข Tyler Bilodeau (88.2%) and Skyy Clark (86.4%) have both shot at least 80 percent this season at the free throw line.
โข The Bruins have gone 7-0 this season when committing fewer turnovers than their opposition.
โข The three opponents (Arizona, California, Gonzaga) that UCLA has lost to have posted a combined record of 29-2.
โข UCLA has shot 38.1 percent from 3-point distance, which ranked No. 3 in the Big Ten through Sunday, Dec. 14.
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GUARD PLAY
โข Both Skyy Clark (12.2 ppg) and Donovan Dent (12.0 ppg) are averaging double figures in scoring this season.
โข Donovan Dent (6.8 apg) and Trent Perry (2.3 apg) rank first and second on the team, respectively, in assists per game.
โข Donovan Dent, Skyy Clark, Trent Perry and Jamar Brown have accounted for 48.4 percent of UCLA's total points.
โข Jaylen Hands is the most recent UCLA player (14.2 ppg, 6.1 apg in 2018-19) to average at least 10.0 ppg and 6.0 apg.
โข Skyy Clark and Donovan Dent have each registered a team-best 13 steals for UCLA this season.
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WHAT'S AHEAD?
โข Following this Wednesday's contest, the Bruins will host games against Cal Poly (Dec. 19) and UC Riverside (Dec. 23).
โข Each of UCLA's upcoming three opponents in December are all from the West (Arizona State, Cal Poly and UC Riverside).
โข After next week's mid-day Tuesday game against UC Riverside, UCLA will play one home game over a 27-day stretch.
โข Big Ten play resumes next month as the Bruins head East to play at Iowa (Jan. 3) and Wisconsin (Jan. 6).
โข UCLA's first home game in the 2026 calendar year takes place against Maryland on Saturday, Jan. 10 (at 5 p.m., PT).
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ASSISTS PER GAME
Through nine games played, senior Donovan Dent has averaged 12.0 points and 6.8 assists per game. Dent, a 6-foot-2 guard from Riverside, Calif., could be on track to join a rare group of UCLA guards who averaged at least 10 points and six assists per game over the course of a full season. Most recently, then-sophomore Jaylen Hands averaged 14.2 points and 6.1 assists during UCLA's 2018-19 season. Pooh Richardson in the late 1980s accomplished this per-game average all four seasons, including a pair of back-to-back seasons where he averaged at least 7.0 assists per game.
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STRONG SCORING
Senior forward Tyler Bilodeau ranked No. 14 among all Big Ten players in scoring (16.6 points per game) through Sunday, Dec. 14. He has shot 52.3 percent from the field in eight games. The 6-foot-9 product from Kennewick, Wash., scored 16 consecutive points for UCLA early in the second half of a road win at Washington. From the 18:05 mark of the second half through the 14-minute mark, Bilodeau registered 16 points on six made shots and three free throws (all from and-one opportunities). He totaled 21 points in the game at Washington and, three days later, registered 14 points and eight rebounds in UCLA's 74-63 win over Oregon. He scored a team-leading 24 points last Saturday night in a loss to Gonzaga.
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YEAR TWO WITH ERIC DAILEY JR.
Junior guard/forward Eric Dailey Jr. has averaged 11.1 points, 5.1 rebounds and 1.6 assists per game, shooting 52.1 percent from the field. He made his season debut in a win over Pepperdine (Nov. 7), and has shot 41.4 percent from 3-point distance (12-for-29). Dailey Jr., who played in 33 of UCLA's 34 games as a sophomore last season, had a 15-point and 10-rebound effort against Sacramento State on Tuesday, Nov. 18. Dailey Jr. has totaled four career double-doubles โ two at UCLA, and two during his freshman season at Oklahoma State (2023-24).
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RUNNING THE POINT
Senior Donovan Dent transferred from New Mexico to UCLA in the offseason and has averaged 12.0 points and 6.8 assists through nine games with the Bruins. Dent registered his eighth career point-assist double-double last Saturday night (12 points, 10 assists) in an 82-72 loss to No. 8 Gonzaga in Seattle. Through Sunday's games, Dent ranked third among all Big Ten players in assists per game (6.8). He became UCLA's first player with at least 10 assists in one game since Feb. 29, 2024, when then-sophomore Dylan Andrews had 11 assists and no turnovers in a loss at Washington.
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SKYY IS THE LIMIT
Senior Skyy Clark has averaged 12.2 points and 2.9 rebounds through 10 games. He joined the Bruins' program in the summer of 2024 after averaging a team-leading 13.2 points per game at Louisville in 2023-24. Clark averaged 19.0 points and 2.5 rebounds in the Bruins' two Big Ten wins earlier this month. He scored 25 points at Washington on Wednesday, Dec. 3, connecting on 6 of 7 shots from 3-point range. He became UCLA's first player to have made six or more 3-pointers in a game since Dylan Andrews shot 7-for-9 from long-range against Oregon State in the 2024 Pac-12 Tournament.
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TOP DEFENDERS
The Bruins' program has produced some of the nation's most talented defensive players over the past several seasons. Last year, then-senior Kobe Johnson was honored as one of five players on the Big Ten All-Defensive Team, closing the year at No. 6 in the conference in steals per game (1.6 spg, 55 steals in 34 games). Two seasons ago (2023-24), then-sophomore Adem Bona was honored as the Pac-12 Conference's Defensive Player of the Year. Bona led UCLA's team that season in blocks (58 blocks, 1.8 bpg) and was second in steals (37 steals, 1.1 spg). Three seasons ago (2022-23), then-junior Jaylen Clark was honored as the Naismith Men's Defensive Player of the Year and the NABC Defensive Player of the Year.
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ADDITIONAL UCLA BASKETBALL NOTES
โข The Bruins have returned four of their primary contributors from last season's squad. In addition, UCLA has welcomed back two redshirt players and has brought in five transfers. Three of UCLA's top four scorers from last year's squad have returned in seniors Tyler Bilodeau (13.5 ppg last season) and Skyy Clark (8.5 ppg) and junior Eric Dailey Jr. (11.4 ppg).
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โข UCLA's five incoming transfer students include Xavier Booker (from Michigan State), Jamar Brown (from UMKC), Donovan Dent (from New Mexico), Steven Jamerson II (from San Diego) and Anthony Peoples Jr. (from North Carolina Central). Last season, Dent secured honorable mention All-America acclaim at New Mexico (averaged 20.4 ppg, 6.4 apg).
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โข Donovan Dent (point guard), Eric Dailey Jr. (small forward) and Tyler Bilodeau (power forward) have each been named to 20-person positional watch lists at the start of the season. Dent is on the Bob Cousy Award watch list, while Dailey Jr. has been tabbed to the Julius Erving Award watch list, and Tyler Bilodeau to the Karl Malone Award watch list.
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โข Through games played from 2010-11 through 2024-25, Coach Cronin was tied for the fifth-most victories of any NCAA Division I coach (373 wins in a 15-year span). He's tied on that list with Michigan State's Tom Izzo (373 wins) and trails Mark Few of Gonzaga (451), Bill Self of Kansas (426), John Calipari of Arkansas (397) and Randy Bennett of Saint Mary's (379).
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NOTES ON PAULEY PAVILION
This marks UCLA's 60th season playing basketball at Pauley Pavilion and the 14th season since the arena underwent a major renovation. Last year, the Bruins went 15-2 in Pauley Pavilion. The first game in Pauley took place on Dec. 3, 1965, as No. 1 UCLA defeated Ohio State, 92-66. UCLA spent 47 seasons in Pauley Pavilion before the venue was closed for an 18-month renovation (closed in March of 2011). UCLA hosted 18 home games in 2011-12 at the Los Angeles Sports Arena (14 games) near downtown L.A. and at the Honda Center in Anaheim (four games) before returning home in Nov. of 2012.
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In 2023-24, CSUN snapped UCLA's 29-home-game winning streak with a 76-72 win over the Bruins (Dec. 19, 2023). Prior to that game, UCLA hadn't lost at home since an overtime setback (84-81) to Oregon on Jan. 13, 2022. Since taking over as UCLA's head coach prior to 2019-20, Mick Cronin has guided the Bruins to an 85-15 home record (85.0% win percentage).
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MISCELLANEOUS NOTES ON UCLA
โข UCLA has shot 50.0 percent or better in two games this season โ 62.7 percent in a win over Presbyterian (Nov. 21) and 52.8 in a victory at Washington (Dec. 3). The shooting percentage against Presbyterian was the Bruins' best single-game mark since Dec. 10, 2016 (UCLA shot 62.7% in an 102-84 win over Michigan, 39-for-58 overall).
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โข Senior guard Donovan Dent has averaged 6.8 assists per game in nine contests this season. Since assists were routinely recorded at UCLA, starting in 1973-74, only three student-athletes have logged at least 7.0 assists per game in one season (Pooh Richardson, twice, as well as Lonzo Ball in 2016-17 and Larry Drew II in 2012-13).
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โข The Bruins' 15-man roster this season includes eight student-athletes who are from the Southern California region. All 15 student-athletes are from the United States. Looking at the eight local players, five are from Los Angeles County and three are from Riverside County (Donovan Dent, Eric Freeny and Anthony Peoples Jr. all went to Corona Centennial HS).
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โข Through 10 games, the Bruins have logged an assist-turnover ratio of 1.48-to-1. Last season, UCLA's assist-turnover ratio (1.55-to-1) ranked No. 20 in the nation and was second in the Big Ten. The Bruins concluded the 2024-25 season with an assist-turnover ratio of 1.55, but posted a ratio of 1.81 in their final 15 games.
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โข Since the start of the 2020-21 season, the Bruins have gone 71-30 in conference play (logging a 70.3 win percentage). UCLA went 13-7 in Big Ten play last season, tied for fourth place in the 18-team league standings.
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