No. 21 UCLA to Host Oregon on Sunday Afternoon

LOS ANGELES – No. 21-ranked UCLA (6-2, 1-0 Pac-12) will host Oregon (4-4, 1-0) on Sunday afternoon at 2 p.m. (PT) in Pauley Pavilion presented by Wescom. The Bruins have won their last three games, including Thursday night's 80-66 decision at Stanford in the Pac-12 opener for both teams. UCLA's game on Sunday afternoon will be nationally televised on ESPN.
 
GAME INFORMATION
Venue: Pauley Pavilion presented by Wescom
Tipoff Time: 2:01 p.m. (PT)
Television: ESPN
TV Talent: Dave Pasch (play-by-play), Bill Walton (analyst)
Radio Broadcast (UCLA Sports Network): AM 570
Radio Talent: Josh Lewin (play-by-play), Tracy Murray (analyst)
SIRIUS XM, SIRIUS XM App Channels: Ch. 84, Ch. 84
 
KEY NOTES ABOUT UCLA
– The Bruins will host Oregon on Sunday afternoon (2 p.m., PT) in a nationally-televised Pac-12 showdown on ESPN. Oregon has won the last four meetings against UCLA, including two regular-season contests last year. The Bruins last defeated Oregon on Feb. 23, 2019 (in Pauley Pavilion), as UCLA overcame a 19-point second-half deficit against the Ducks. Last season (Jan. 13, 2022), Oregon won the contest against UCLA in Pauley Pavilion in overtime, 84-81.
 
– UCLA has won its past three games, registering 82.6 points per game in those victories (limiting the opposition to 59.7 points per game). Over the past three contests, Jaime Jaquez Jr. has averaged 23.7 points and has shot 72.7 percent from the field (32-for-44). Amari Bailey has averaged 16.7 points, 4.3 rebounds and 5.0 assists in the last three Bruin victories. He has shot 63.3 percent overall in the past three games, while UCLA (as a team) has shot 58.1 percent from the field.
 
– The Bruins jumped ahead of Stanford, 17-0, early in the first half on Thursday and built a 23-point lead in the first half. UCLA won the contest, 80-66, recording a victory in their Pac-12 Conference opener for the sixth consecutive season. UCLA notched its third consecutive win over Stanford, scoring more points in the first half (50) since totaling 55 points against North Florida before halftime in a victory early last season in Pauley Pavilion (Nov. 17, 2021).
 
– Jaime Jaquez Jr. had 27 points, four rebounds and three steals on Thursday night at Stanford. He has scored in double figures in all eight games for UCLA this season, having totaled 27 points in each of the Bruins' last two contests (vs. Bellarmine, and at Stanford). Jaquez Jr. has scored at least 15 points in each of the past five games. He has shot 56.0 percent from the field in eight games this season (which ranked No. 10 in the Pac-12 on Friday, Dec. 2).
 
– UCLA's 26 assists in the 81-60 win over Bellarmine on Sunday marked the most by any Bruins' team since the 2016-17 season. Most recently, UCLA finished with 26 assists in a win at Arizona State on Feb. 23, 2017. That season, the Bruins totaled 27 assists in two games, 29 assists in three contests, and 30 assists in a home victory over Arizona State. Tyger Campbell has averaged 5.3 assists in eight games (41 total assists), and Amari Bailey has averaged 3.0 assists per game.
 
– The Bruins ranked No. 10, nationally, in the Pomeroy College Basketball Ratings (KenPom.com), through games played Thursday, Dec. 1. UCLA has compiled the No. 8-ranked offensive efficiency and are No. 30 in the defensive efficiency category. UCLA entered the week as the No. 21-ranked team in both of the major national polls (AP, Coaches Polls). The Bruins have been ranked in each of the last 23 Associated Press polls (since the start of the 2021-22 season).
 
WHO IS BACK FOR THE BRUINS?
UCLA's program has returned five of the main 11 contributors from last year. UCLA went 27-8 overall last season, advancing to the NCAA Tournament's Sweet 16. Key players back include seniors Tyger Campbell, Jaime Jaquez Jr., Kenneth Nwuba and David Singleton and junior Jaylen Clark. Each of those student-athletes played in at least 20 games in 2021-22. All five competed in the 2021 NCAA Tournament (the "First Four" to the Final Four). UCLA also has returned one pair of redshirt freshmen in Mac Etienne and Will McClendon, who both missed last season with knee injuries (torn ACL).
 
– With a 27-point and 4-rebound effort against Stanford on Thursday evening, senior Jaime Jaquez Jr. has now scored at least 20 points in 12 career contests. He has totaled 10 points or more in 67 career games.
 
BALANCED SCORING
Five UCLA players have averaged at least 10 points per game, through the season's first eight games. Jaime Jaquez Jr. has averaged a team-high 18.0 points per game, having scored a season-high 27 points in each of UCLA's last two games. Tyger Campbell (14.4 ppg, 5.3 apg) ranks second on the team in scoring and is tied for third in the Pac-12 in assists. Jaylen Clark (14.0 ppg), Amari Bailey (11.4 ppg) and David Singleton (11.0 ppg) round out UCLA's list of double-figure scoring averages. Jaquez Jr. (56.0%), Clark (65.6%), Bailey (53.5%) and Singleton (52.6%) are all shooting above 50 percent.
 
– Junior guard Jaylen Clark currently ranks fifth in the Pac-12 in field goal percentage (65.6%). He leads all Pac-12 players in steals (16, with 2.3 steals per game) and ranks seventh in the conference in rebounding (6.7 rpg).
 
– Fifth-year senior David Singleton ranks third on UCLA's all-time 3-PT percentage list (44.4%), through 135 career games. He enters the weekend ranking No. 4 this season in the Pac-12 in 3-PT percentage (48.7%)
 
ASSISTS AND TURNOVERS
The Bruins have compiled an assist-turnover ratio of 1.57-to-1, through eight games. The Bruins' opposition has recorded 102 assists and 137 turnovers (an assist-turnover ratio of 0.74-to-1). Tyger Campbell has registered 41 assists and 17 turnovers, while David Singleton has committed just three turnovers through 224 minutes (averaging 28.1 minutes per game). Freshman guard Dylan Andrews has nine assists and just two turnovers in limited action off the bench (11.7 mpg). More than three weeks into the season, UCLA ranks first among all Pac-12 programs in assist-turnover ratio (1.57).
 
JAQUEZ JR. AND CAMPBELL
Seniors Tyger Campbell and Jaime Jaquez Jr. have been named to the 50-person watch list for this season's John R. Wooden Award, which annually honors the nation's top men's and women's college basketball players. The UCLA men's basketball program has seen past standout players Marques Johnson (1977) and Ed O'Bannon (1995) win the Wooden Award. In fact, Marques Johnson won the Wooden Award in 1977, in the award's first-ever season.
– Last season, Campbell secured first-team All-Pac-12 acclaim for the second consecutive year. He became the first UCLA player to earn first-team all-conference honors in back-to-back years since Arron Afflalo (2006 and 2007). This season, he has averaged 14.4 points and 5.3 assists through eight contests.
 
– Jaquez Jr. was inserted into UCLA's starting lineup during the Maui Invitational (freshman year, in Nov. 2019) and has been a mainstay in the lineup since that week. He has played in 105 career games at UCLA, having averaged 30.9 minutes per contest. He has logged career averages of 12.3 points and 5.6 rebounds per game.
 
– Jaquez Jr. (1,287 points) and Campbell (1,097 points) have both crossed the 1,000-career points threshold (Jaquez Jr. accomplished the feat last season, and Campbell reached that milestone in the second game of this season). Jaquez Jr. currently ranks No. 37 (tied) on the all-time list and Campbell ranks No. 53.
 
– Campbell has become one of eight UCLA players to have logged at least 1,000 career points and 500 assists in the Bruins' uniform (of note, the assist stat has been tracked at UCLA since the start of the 1973-74 season). Including Campbell, eight former UCLA players have accomplished the 1,000-point and 500-assist milestone.
 
HIGH-LEVEL FRESHMAN
Freshman guard Amari Bailey has averaged 11.4 points, 3.6 rebounds and 3.0 assists through his first eight college games. Over UCLA's last three games, Bailey has registered 16.7 points and 4.3 rebounds while shooting 63.3 percent from the field (19-for-30, and 5-for-8 from 3-point range). He scored 19 points last week in a win over Pepperdine (Nov. 23) and tied his season-high with a 19-point and six-rebound effort at Stanford on Thursday, Dec. 1. Bailey scored 15 of his 19 points against Stanford in the first half, helping the Bruins secure a 50-29 cushion at halftime at Maples Pavilion.
 
FRESHMAN OF THE WEEK: Amari Bailey was honored as the Pac-12 Freshman of the Week (following UCLA's wins against Pepperdine and Bellarmine). In those two games, he averaged 15.5 points and 6.0 assists per game.
 
WELCOME TO WESTWOOD
UCLA has added six freshmen to the roster with guards Dylan Andrews, Amari Bailey, Abramo Canka and Jack Seidler and forwards Adem Bona and Evan Manjikian. Bailey (6-foot-5 guard) and Bona (6-foot-10 forward) were both honored as McDonald's All-America selections in the spring of 2022. Bailey was recently listed as a preseason honorable mention All-Pac-12 Conference selection (along with junior Jaylen Clark). Andrews (6-foot-2 guard) spent his first three years of high school at nearby Windward School (Los Angeles) before excelling as a senior at Compass Prep in Arizona. Bona averaged 15.5 points and 10.5 rebounds per game last season as a senior at Prolific Prep (Napa, Calif.).
 
BRUINS' YOUTH: Including redshirt freshmen Mac Etienne (6-foot-10, forward) and Will McClendon (6-foot-3, guard), the Bruins have eight total freshmen on this season's roster (six true freshmen, two redshirt freshmen).
 
THREE-POINT STREAK
UCLA has made at least one 3-pointer played in its last 761 games. That 3-point streak began after the Bruins went 0-for-14 from 3-point territory in a 78-63 loss at No. 2-ranked Stanford on Feb. 3, 2000 (Maples Pavilion). UCLA has made at least three 3-pointers in 305 of 313 games since the start of the 2013-14 season. The Bruins made a school single-game-record 19 three-pointers, on 31 attempts, in a 104-89 win at Colorado on Jan. 12, 2017. UCLA's previous 3-point record was set earlier that season, as the Bruins made 18 of 30 attempts in the regular-season opener against Pacific (Nov. 11, 2016). UCLA has made 17 or more 3-point field goals in four games (19 once, 18 once and 17 twice).
 
JAYLEN THE SPARK PLUG
Junior Jaylen Clark has been a go-to contributor early in the basketball season. He has averaged 14.0 points and a team-best 6.7 rebounds per game (seven contests). Clark also totaled 16 steals, 15 assists and three blocks. This isn't the first time in which Clark has filled up the stat sheet, both on offense and defense. He had a five-game stretch as a sophomore (Feb. 2022), averaging 14.8 points, 6.4 rebounds, 1.6 assists and 2.4 steals (UCLA went 4-1 in those five contests).
 
HISTORY & TRADITION
The 2022-23 school year marks the 104th season in which UCLA has fielded a men's basketball team (first season was 1919-20). In addition, this is the 57th season in which the Bruins have called Pauley Pavilion their home. The arena opened at the start of the 1965-66 season, and UCLA spent the next 46 seasons playing home games in Pauley Pavilion. The arena was closed for an 18-month renovation during the 2011-12 school year, re-opening in Nov. 2012. In all, the Bruins have won a nation-leading 11 NCAA Championships and have advanced to the NCAA Final Four 19 times.
 
HOME GAMES, PAC-12 CONTESTS
– The Bruins went 14-1 at home last season, winning their final eight games in Pauley Pavilion. UCLA will enter next Sunday afternoon's home game against Oregon having won their last 13 home contests. Last season, the Bruins' only loss at home was an 84-81 overtime setback against Oregon (the night of Thursday, Jan. 13). Since taking over as UCLA's head coach (fall of 2019), Mick Cronin has led the Bruins to a 43-6 record in all games played in Pauley Pavilion.
 
– With the COVID-19 pandemic prompting teams to close their arenas to fans, none of UCLA's home games in 2020-21 were played in front of a crowd. Likewise, three of UCLA's games in January of 2022 were played before no fans (arena was limited to players' family members only). Including a seven-game home win streak to close the 2019-20 home schedule, UCLA has won its last 24 home contests with fans in Pauley Pavilion presented by Wescom.
 
– Since the start of the 2020-21 season, UCLA has compiled a 29-11 mark in the Pac-12 (13-6 in 2020-21, and 15-5 last season). The Bruins have won 24 of their last 26 home games in Pac-12 action (the Bruins lost to USC in March of 2021 and to Oregon in overtime last season on Jan. 13, 2022). The Bruins won their final seven home Pac-12 games in 2019-20, during Coach Cronin's first season as UCLA's head coach.