UCLA Basketball Hosts Coastal Carolina on Sunday Night
LOS ANGELES - The UCLA basketball team will face Coastal Carolina (1-0) on Sunday at 7 p.m. (PT) in Pauley Pavilion. The Bruins (1-0) have never faced Coastal Carolina on the basketball court. Both teams won their season-opening games on Friday evening. UCLA cruised past Montana State, 113-78, before 6,523 in Pauley Pavilion. Coastal Carolina defeated Trinity Baptist, 76-39, at the HTC Center in Conway, S.C.
GAME INFORMATION
Venue: Pauley Pavilion (13,800)
Date: Sunday, Nov. 16
Tipoff Time: 7:05 p.m. (PT)
Television: Pac-12 Networks
TV Talent: Jim Watson (play-by-play), Don MacLean (analyst)
Radio: AM 570
Radio Talent: Chris Roberts (play-by-play), Tracy Murray (analyst)
SIRIUS Sattelite Radio: Channel 91
SIRIUS XM Radio: Channel 91
GETTING TO THE GAME
Tickets are available by ordering online or calling the UCLA Central Ticket Office at 310-UCLA-WIN (825-2946). The Pauley Pavilion Box Office (north side) will open Sunday evening at 5:30 p.m., prior to the 7 p.m. game. More information about directions to Pauley, parking and tickets can be found through our Gameday Info website.
LISTEN LIVE
UCLA's game against Coastal Carolina on Sunday night will be broadcast live on the UCLA Sports Network from IMG College on AM 570 (KLAC), the flagship home of UCLA Athletics. Chris Roberts and former UCLA basketball standout Tracy Murray will have the call, live from Pauley Pavilion. Fans can also listen to the audio broadcast by using the TuneIn radio app (click here). The Bruins’ season opener versus Montana State is also available via SIRIUS Satellite Radio (Channel 91) and SIRIUS XM Radio (Channel 91).
BRUINS WIN OPENER
Six UCLA players scored in double figures last Friday night, helping UCLA open its 2014-15 campaign with an 113-78 victory over Montana State. Norman Powell scored a game-leading 25 points, while Bryce Alford netted his first career double-double (18 points, 12 assists). Kevon Looney tallied 20 points, nine rebounds and three assists in his first regular-season action as a Bruin. UCLA led at halftime, 60-32, against the Bobcats.
CENTURY MARK
UCLA scored more points in its 113-78 win last Friday than it had in any previous season opener since Nov. 27, 1993. In that contest, the Bruins downed Loyola Marymount, 115-77, in Pauley Pavilion. In Friday’s game, UCLA logged its highest single-game point total since defeating Wyoming, 113-62, on Dec. 23, 2008, in Pauley Pavilion. UCLA’s record for points scored in a season opener occurred Nov. 23, 1990 (defeated UC Irvine, 134-101).
ABOUT COASTAL CAROLINA
Coastal Carolina went 21-13 last season, won the Big South Conference Tournament and advanced to the NCAA Tournament’s second round as a No. 16 seed. The Chanticleers have been selected as the preseason favorite to repeat as conference champions by the league’s head coaches and media members. In his eighth season as Coastal Carolina’s head coach, Cliff Ellis has helped the Chanticleers engineer a 135-88 record in seven-plus years. Last season, Ellis guided Coastal Carolina to its first NCAA Tournament berth since 1993.
OUR TEAM – WHO’S BACK
UCLA returns three of its eight primary players from last year’s team – senior guard Norman Powell, junior forward/center Tony Parker and sophomore guard Bryce Alford. Each of those three key returners played in all 37 games for UCLA one year ago, helping the Bruins finish the season with a 28-9 record, including a Pac-12 Tournament title and the program’s first appearance in the NCAA Tournament’s Sweet 16 since 2008. Powell is UCLA’s top returning scorer, having registered 11.4 points per game in 2013-14.
NORMAN POWELL – UCLA’s most veteran player, Powell has competed in all 106 games for the Bruins since the start of the 2011-12 season. The senior hailing from San Diego, Calif., averaged just 5.3 points per game in his first two seasons before netting 11.4 points, 2.8 rebounds and 1.7 assists per game last season.
TONY PARKER – A 6-foot-9 forward/center from Atlanta, Parker made significant strides on the court in 2013-14. He averaged 6.9 points and 4.4 rebounds per game (17.2 minutes per game) after having played sparingly as a freshman in 2012-13 (2.4 ppg, 1.2 rpg in 6.3 minutes per game).
BRYCE ALFORD – Selected as one of five players to last season’s Pac-12 All-Freshman Team, Alford averaged 8.0 points, 1.8 rebounds and 2.8 assists per game in 2013-14. He played in all 37 games (making one start) and was one of two freshmen in the nation to record over 100 assists and fewer than 50 turnovers.
NOAH ALLEN – The 6-foot-6 guard from Pacific Grove, Calif., battled back from multiple fractures to the face (sustained Nov. 12, 2013), playing in 11 games for UCLA as a freshman in 2013-14. Allen did not see major minutes on the court, but he was able to play in five of the Bruins’ six postseason games.
WANAAH BAIL – A 6-foot-9 forward from Houston, Texas, Bail played in 13 games as a freshman in 2013-14. Bail overcame preseason knee surgery in the summer of 2013, returning to the lineup in UCLA’s sixth game of the season. He averaged just 4.6 minutes per game, netting 1.6 points and 0.6 rebounds per contest.
WELCOME TO WESTWOOD
UCLA added five freshmen and has welcomed sophomore Isaac Hamilton to its rotation (Hamilton sat out in 2013-14). Freshmen Kevon Looney (6-foot-9 forward) and Thomas Welsh (7-foot center) both earned 2014 McDonald’s All-America honors. The Bruins’ incoming group also includes two international big men – 6-foot-10 forward Gyorgy “G.G.” Goloman from Hungary and 6-foot-10 guard/forward Jonah Bolden from Australia (Bolden will sit out the season due to NCAA rules). Alec Wulff, a 6-foot-3 guard from Laguna Beach, Calif., has also joined the program.
LOOKING BACK
The Bruins went 28-9 overall last season, advancing to the NCAA Tournament’s Sweet 16 and winning the Pac-12 Tournament championship for the first time since 2008. In his first season as UCLA’s head coach, Steve Alford helped the Bruins engineer their highest single-season win total since the 2007-08 campaign. In addition, he tied the program record for most victories by a head coach in his first season in Westwood. Then-sophomores Kyle Anderson and Jordan Adams each captured first-team All-Pac-12 acclaim. Anderson and Adams, along with then-freshman Zach LaVine, were all selected in the first round of the NBA Draft. The trio of Anderson, Adams and LaVine, along with then-senior Travis Wear, are currently playing in the NBA.