FIVE AND FALLING FOR UCLA BLOWOUT LOSS TO ST. JOHN'S EXTENDS FUTILITY STREAK ST. JOHN'S 71, UCLA 55.Byline: Brian Dohn Staff Writer NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of - For months, 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 Ben Howland (born May 28, 1957 in Lebanon, Oregon) is an American college head coach of men's basketball. He has been the head coach of the University of California, Los Angeles since 2003, and recently signed a contract extension through 2013. bemoaned a schedule that sent his his team 3,000 miles away from home for a nonconference game in the middle of the Pacific-10 Conference The Pacific-10 Conference (Pac-10) is a college athletic conference which operates in the western United States. It participates in the NCAA's Division I. Membership Full members season. Apparently, his players had little desire to play, either. What had the makings of a turnaround season has become a nosedive nose·dive n. 1. A very steep dive of an aircraft. 2. A sudden, swift drop or plunge: Stock prices took a nosedive. Noun 1. , taking the Bruins from NCAA Tournament NCAA Tournament can mean: Men's Sports
The latest debacle began with mediocre St. John's opening a big first-half lead Saturday by pushing around soft UCLA, and ended with Howland suggesting changes will be made to the starting lineup For the line of action figures, see . A starting lineup in sports refers to the set of players actively participating in the event when the game begins. The players in the starting lineup are commonly referred to as starters, whereas the others are substitutes after the Red Storm extended the Bruins' losing streak to five games with a 71-55 thrashing at Madison Square Garden Current arenas in the National Hockey League Western Conference Eastern Conference . Decades ago considered the model basketball program in the country, the more apt comparisons now lump the Bruins (9-8) with the likes of Stony Brook Stony Brook may refer to: Massachusetts:
Those are the five teams teams St. John's (5-13) had beaten this season, while losing to Fairfield, Hofstra and Penn. The Red Storm's victory over UCLA ended a losing streak A Losing Streak is the third episode of series 2 of the BBC sit-com, Only Fools and Horses. It was first broadcast on 4 November 1982. Synopsis Del Boy, Rodney, and Grandad are making some sort of cheap perfume just to earn money after Del has been losing most of at seven games. ``We're going to have to go back to the drawing board a little bit here and maybe make some changes against Washington State, because we're not getting off to good starts,'' Howland said. ``We may have to make some changes to our lineup to try and get off to a better start early, both defensively and offensively.'' The most disturbing part of another disastrous beginning was the effort put forth by the Bruins. ``We're just not executing and we're just not playing hard enough,'' UCLA junior Dijon Thompson Dijon Lynn Thompson (born February 23, 1983 in Los Angeles, California, USA) is an American professional basketball player for Alba Berlin of the German Bundesliga. said. ``Every team is a good team, and we have to come in and play hard regardless of who it is, and we didn't do that. We've discussed it (as a team), but you can't just talk about it. You have to do it. Just gotta do it.'' Among other sore points was a 49-30 rebounding advantage for St. John's - led by 6-foot-7 forward Kyle Cuffe's career-high 15 - and a 17-point halftime lead by the Red Storm that stretched to 19 at various moments of the second half. UCLA, which has trailed by double digits in the first half of the past five games, pulled no closer than 48-37 with 13:50 remaining. ``It's something we have to find out,'' Bruins point guard Cedric Bozeman said of the poor starts. ``I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. . It has to stop.'' St. John's sophomore guard Elijah Ingram scored 18 first-half points and finished with a game-high 21, and Cuffe added 13 points. But it was the Red Storm's ability to control the boards, a familiar theme for UCLA opponents, that most suggested how deplorable the Bruins have become. St. John's was being outrebounded by opponents on the season but grabbed a season-high in rebounds Saturday, 20 more than it had in Wednesday's loss to West Virginia. ``We felt we could be a little more physical as a team,'' Cuffe said. ``After the first couple of minutes, when we started grabbing rebounds and putting bodies on them, we were going up two or three times for rebounds and they weren't jumping for them.'' Howland was adamant about making lineup changes for Thursday's game against Washington State, and the Bruins' backcourt is a good place to begin. His point of emphasis again was UCLA's inability of late to stop dribble penetration. This time, even with a zone defense in the first half, Bozeman and Thompson couldn't keep Ingram and Hill from driving and finding open teammates. Ingram admitted he didn't have as many open shots all season as he did in the first half, when he made five 3-pointers. ``They didn't really step up to the challenge like we thought they would,'' Ingram said, ``and we took it to them.'' UCLA's indecision and incomprehension in·com·pre·hen·sion n. Lack of comprehension or understanding. incomprehension Noun inability to understand incomprehensible adj Noun 1. in attacking St. John's zone defense in the first 20 minutes rendered most of the second half inconsequential. Even though the Bruins have seen a healthy dose of zone in the past three weeks, it hasn't gotten them any closer to solving it. St. John's was able to weather an early cold spell from the field to hold a 12-7 lead after UCLA went 6 minutes, 20 seconds without a field goal. The Bruins also didn't score in the final 5:49 of the first half, and the drought stretched to 7:55 before Brian Morrison's 3-pointer in the second half cut the St. John's lead to 43-27. But the Bruins' offense was dotted with bad passes, unforced turnovers and poor shot selection, and UCLA shot less than 45 percent (43.4) for the sixth consecutive game. ``We have to find a way to break the zone,'' Bozeman said. ``Teams are going to keep doing it.'' Brian Dohn, (818) 713-3607 brian.dohn(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1 -- color) St. John's guard Elijah Ingram scored 18 of his game-high 21 points in the first half Saturday, helping to bury UCLA early. (2) Trevor Ariza gets a rare easy basket Saturday for UCLA, which shot just 43.4 percent for the game. Spencer A. Burnett/Associated Press |
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