No. 18 Purdue beats UCLA to reach Big Ten title game
Purdue beat short-handed UCLA 73-66 on Saturday to advance to the Big Ten Tournament championship game.
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Purdue beat short-handed UCLA 73-66 on Saturday to advance to the Big Ten Tournament championship game.
In this Channel 2 News clip from 1975, the Rev. Jesse Jackson talks with sports director Brent Musburger about the search for a new UCLA basketball coach to replace the retiring John Wooden, and Jackson’s call for UCLA to consider Black candidates.
The Wildcats had chipped away at their deficit and got within 68-65 on Ty Berry's 3-pointer with 33 seconds left.
Kylan Boswell scored 11 points and reserve Will Riley 10 for Illinois (17-8, 9-6 Big Ten), which finished shooting 51% (27 of 53).
UCLA commit Colton Gumino is leading Hersey High School into the playoffs and is giving back to his community.
The Hersey High School football team is preparing for the IHSA playoffs after another successful regular season being led by UCLA-commit Colton Gumino. Not only is the local quarterback unique for being recruited by the Bruins in California, but for being selfless, using football to give back to his Arlington Heights community.
Police used force to arrest and remove student protesters from the UCLA campus in Los Angeles. Officers moved after hundreds of protesters defied police orders to leave.
They put up a heck of a fight in the second half, but in the end, it just wasn't quite enough.
The second-seeded Bruins (31-5) turned up the defensive intensity late, holding the seventh-seeded Wildcats to 1-for-12 shooting during a key late-game stretch to seal the win.
While UCLA is the much higher-seeded team with a much richer tournament history, there are some similarities between these two veteran squads that both play tough defense.
Larry Farmer brings a lot of experience to the sideline, even if this is his first time coaching high school basketball.
He played for and coached at probably the premiere program in college basketball. Now, he's coaching high school girls' basketball. Woodlands Academy is a small Catholic high school in Lake Forest that now has a big-time coach leading the girls' basketball team.
The Illini (4-0) will play No. 16 Virginia in Sunday's championship game of the Continental Tire Main Event. UCLA (3-1) faces fifth-ranked Baylor in the consolation game.
There was plenty of purple in Oklahoma City Friday as fans tried to fire up the Northwestern women's softball team in an elimination game against UCLA. But a victory for the was not to be.