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UCLA NOTEBOOK: BRUINS MCCURSED AT MCKALE CENTER.


Byline: Billy Witz Staff Writer

Maybe it's something about McKale Center McKale Memorial Center is an athletic arena located on the campus of the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. It is primarily used for basketball, but also features state-of-the-art physical training and therapy facilities. , but UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles
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 doesn't seem to handle prosperity well there.

The 20-point lead the Bruins blew in Saturday's 96-86 loss to Arizona might have been the largest in school history (UCLA officials did not have records available). If so, one of the ones it surpassed came at McKale, as well.

In the 1994 West Regional in Tucson, the ninth-seeded Bruins blew a 19-point first-half lead to Michigan and lost 84-83 in overtime in the second round of the NCAA Tournament NCAA Tournament can mean:

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Another large come-from-ahead loss came Dec. 2, 1995, when the Bruins lost a 19-point lead in the first half at No. 2 Kansas. The Jayhawks eventually won the game 85-70.

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 consolation, they won 10 in a row after that loss.

--Fouls fair: UCLA, which had Dan Gadzuric Dan Gadzuric (Gadžurić in Serbian, pronounced /ɠɑːdʒʊɹitʃ/ (born February 2, 1978 in The Hague) is a Dutch professional basketball player for the Milwaukee Bucks in the NBA.  foul out and Cedric Bozeman Cedric R. Bozeman (born March 7 1983 in Los Angeles, California) is an American professional basketball player, formerly of the Atlanta Hawks of the NBA. Bozeman averaged 1.1 points in 23 games with five starts with the Hawks before being waived in January 2007. , Ryan Walcott and Billy Knight finish with four fouls, was called for 24 fouls to Arizona's 13. The Bruins shot 13 free throws, 10 below their average, to Arizona's 28.

Yet, UCLA coach Steve Lavin said those numbers had less to do with the officials and more to do with his team settling for jump shots and not taking the ball to the basket.

``We didn't give ourselves a chance to draw more fouls,'' Lavin said.

--Correction: Arizona's comeback was the second-largest in school history, topping the 21-point deficit it rebounded from two weeks ago against Oregon State.
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Title Annotation:Sports
Publication:Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Date:Jan 21, 2002
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