Bailey Honored as Pac-12 Freshman of the Week

SAN FRANCISCO – UCLA guard Amari Bailey has earned Pac-12 Freshman of the Week honors, as announced on Monday by the Pac-12 Conference office.
 
Bailey, a 6-foot-5 guard from Chicago, Ill., averaged 15.5 points, 6.0 assists, 3.5 rebounds and 2.0 steals in the Bruins' two home wins last week. He shot 57.1 percent from the field, connecting on 12 of 21 shots.
 
Bailey scored a season-high and team-best 19 points in UCLA's 100-53 win against Pepperdine last Wednesday. He finished that game with four assists and was a perfect 3-for-3 from beyond the 3-point arc. Four nights later, Bailey registered 12 points, a season-best eight assists and four steals as UCLA raced past Bellarmine, 81-60, in Pauley Pavilion presented by Wescom.
 
The Pac-12 Conference has distributed a weekly freshman award since the start of the 2019-20 basketball season. Bailey has become UCLA's first freshman to earn the weekly honor since Tyger Campbell was named the Pac-12's Freshman of the Week on Feb. 24, 2020. During the 2019-20 season, both Campbell and Jaime Jaquez Jr. (Feb. 3, 2020) were honored as the conference's freshman of the week.
 
Bailey enters the week ranking No. 6 in the Pac-12 in assist-turnover ratio (1.75, with 21 assists and 12 turnovers), tied for the No. 6 spot in steals (10 steals, at 1.43 steals per game) and No. 14 in assists per game (3.0 apg). He has averaged 10.3 points, 3.3 rebounds and 3.0 assists through seven games.
 
No. 21-ranked UCLA (5-2) will return to action at Stanford (3-4) on Thursday, Dec. 1. Game time at Stanford's Maples Pavilion is 7:30 p.m. (PT). UCLA's Pac-12 contest will be nationally televised on ESPN2.