Pac-12: UCLA Can’t Land a Basket In First Half Making it Easy for Kentucky

The Pac-12 Conference is going to be fun to watch this season. While the Oregon Ducks are working on team chemistry and coming along nicely so far this season, the UCLA Bruins are also looking to find their identity before entering the Pac-12 regular season next week. The Bruins had a tougher game against the top team in the country on Saturday in facing Kentucky. UCLA outshot Kentucky, but missed seventeen of those shots and Wildcats had a very lopsided 41-7 lead at halftime.

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Kentucky went on a 24-0 run to start the game and never looked back. Devin Booker had nineteen points and Aaron Harrison had fifteen for the Wildcats. The top team in the county has three players that are six foot ten or better and are very athletic. The loss drops UCLA to 8-4 on the young season. It was the first meeting in eight years between the programs and Steve Alford in his second season at the helm for the Bruins knows he has work to do.

According to ESPN, he was so impressed in the loss that he said in his post game press conference that he thought that the Kentucky Wildcats could run the table and not lose this season thanks in part to their Defense and Athleticism. It appears this early in the season that Head Coach John Calipari had done it again with talent on the basketball court.

Alford remains at 499 in his career needing just one more win to reach the 500 mark. The Bruins face Alabama on December 28th before starting Pac-12 play on January 2nd against Colorado. Oregon hosts UCLA in a Pac-12 matchup on January 24th.