COLLISON'S INJURY TEMPERS VICTORY UCLA: MBAH A MOUTE ALSO BANGED UP AGAINST WEAKENED WASHINGTON. UCLA 69, WASHINGTON 55.Byline: Brian Dohn Staff Writer First out of the locker room was forward Luc Richard Mbah a Moute Luc Richard Mbah a Moute (born 9 September 1986 in Yaounde, Cameroon) is a 6' 8" Cameroonian basketball player who plays for the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Bruins in the Pacific Ten Conference of the NCAA. , his knees packed in ice and his gait rickety rick·et·y adj. rick·et·i·er, rick·et·i·est 1. Likely to break or fall apart; shaky. 2. Feeble with age; infirm. 3. Of, having, or resembling rickets. . A few minutes later, point guard Darren Collison Darren Michael Collison (born August 23, 1987) is an American basketball player. The right-hander is a native of Rancho Cucamonga, California, and is currently playing his sophomore season for the University of California, Los Angeles. , leaning heavily to his left and barely able to muster a grimace grimace Neurology A humorless facial 'mask' typically seen in Pts with catatonia. See Amimia. , hobbled out. As ecstatic as the fifth-ranked Bruins were after easily dispatching a deteriorating Washington program 69-55 Thursday at Pauley Pavilion Edwin W. Pauley Pavilion, informally and commonly known as Pauley Pavilion, is an indoor arena located on the campus of UCLA in Los Angeles, California. It is home to the UCLA Bruins men's and women's basketball teams. The men's and women's volleyball teams also play here. to set up Saturday's showdown with No. 4 Washington State, there was equal concern for the health of UCLA's two starters. Collison, it appears, sustained the more serious injury. He missed the final 18 minutes, was diagnosed with a hip contusion CONTUSION, med. jurisp. An injury or lesion, arising from the shock of a body with a large surface, which presents no loss of substance, and no apparent wound. If the skin be divided, the injury takes the name of a contused wound. Vide 1 Ch. Pr, 38; 4 Carr. & P. 381, 487, 558, 565; 6 Carr. as his injury-ravaged season continues, and said he was uncertain if he would be available to play against the Cougars. "Right now, my hip hurts a lot," Collison said. "I'm going to be doing treatment (today) and I don't really know the status of how things are, if I'm even going to play or not. Hopefully, I can play Saturday. Right now, they're looking at it as a hip contusion." Collison missed UCLA's first six games with a torn ligament in his left knee, and Sunday was hospitalized briefly because of food poisoning food poisoning, acute illness following the eating of foods contaminated by bacteria, bacterial toxins, natural poisons, or harmful chemical substances. It was once customary to classify all such illnesses as "ptomaine poisoning," but it was later discovered that . He took fluids intravenously at the hospital, and again after Wednesday's practice. However, there was no quick remedy for his ailing hip, which he injured when he bumped with Washington's Ryan Appleby. "I am frustrated, but I'm going to continue to stay positive," Collison said. "This team has a bright future ahead, and all I can do is keep my head up and stay positive. I'm going through a lot of adversity right now. It's going to really challenge me to see how I'm going to progress and mature through those situations." Mbah a Moute, who was plagued by sore knees all last season, suffered a right knee contusion in the second half. It was the same knee he injured Saturday at California, and was a bummer bum·mer n. 1. Slang An adverse reaction to a hallucinogenic drug. 2. Slang One that depresses, frustrates, or disappoints: Getting stranded at the airport was a real bummer. of a way to cap what was one of his best offensive performances of the season. Mbah a Moute scored 17 points, making 6 of 11 shots from the field, but did not score in the final 16 minutes. "I was being aggressive and trying to make plays for myself," Mbah a Moute said. "I knew they were going to come out and try to deny everything to Kevin (Love), Josh (Shipp) and Darren. I had to be aggressive and attack the rim, and make the extra pass. I think I did a pretty good job of it." In Collison's absence, Russell Westbrook scored a game-high 18 points, on 6-of-7 shooting, and also had four assists. Meanwhile, all the Bruins (15-1, 3-0) did in building an 18-point halftime lead and 22-point lead early in the second half was whet the appetite for the showdown with fourth-ranked Washington State. The matchup with the Cougars gives the winner the early edge in the race for a No. 1 seed in the West in the NCAA Tournament, not to mention a quick jump in the conference race. "It will be like getting a root canal root canal n. 1. The chamber of the dental pulp lying within the root portion of a tooth. Also called pulp canal. 2. without any painkillers," UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX coach Ben Howland said. "Playing them is going through the grinder Grinder A slang term for a person who works in the investment industry and makes small amounts of money at a time on small investments, over and over again. Notes: . It is unbelievably hard because of how patient they are offensively, and how they just wait for a breakdown." Love had 11 points and seven rebounds and leading scorer Shipp had nine points. The Bruins made 19 of 21 free-throw attempts, a stark contrast from the 7 of 14 made by the Huskies. Washington (9-6, 0-2) has lost two straight, and five of its losses have come against ranked teams, including a four-point decision against Washington State and a one-point loss to Pittsburgh. The Huskies were led by junior forward Jon Brockman's 16 points and eight rebounds, but he was not much of a factor as the Bruins built an early lead and were never challenged in the second half. Appleby, who is Washington's second-leading scorer, averaging 12 points per game, did not score. UCLA SATURDAY vs. Wash. State, 11:30 a.m., Pauley Pavilion. TV: FSN (Full-Service Network) A communications network that provides shopping, movies on demand and access to databases and a variety of interactive services. Prime. CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1 -- color) UCLA's Luc Richard Mbah a Moute and Washington's Tim Morris chase a loose ball in Thursday's game at Pauley Pavilion. (2) UCLA's James Keefe defends against Washington's Venoy Overton in Thursday's game. David Crane/Staff Photographer |
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