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| Only Arron Afflalo knows whether he has played his final home game at UCLA, and he isn't telling.
Afflalo scored 20 points, Luc Richard Mbah a Moute added 11 and the fourth-ranked Bruins defeated Stanford 75-61 to close out their first undefeated home season in 32 years Saturday. In the final seconds, 12,001 fans chanted "One more year!" at Afflalo, a junior who entered the NBA draft last April before withdrawing. "I heard them," he said, smiling. "It's good to have that support and I appreciate it. I'm just happy to be in the moment right now." And there was several important moments Saturday. The Bruins (25-3, 14-2 Pac-10) clinched at least a share of the Pac-10 title for the second consecutive year. They wrap up the regular season next week at the Washington schools. "It's only a share," Afflalo said. "You want to win outright and you do that by playing as hard as you can against the next team. We understand the importance of every game now." UCLA is 20-0 at Pauley Pavilion dating to last season, including 16-0 this season. The 1974-75 team, which won coach John Wooden's 10th and final NCAA championship, also was perfect at home. "That's exciting to go through the whole year and hold your home court," coach Ben Howland said. "It's hard to do. Everyone is coming in giving us their best shot." This year's team, which had no seniors to honor at the last home game, became the 10th in school history to go undefeated in the arena's 41-year history. Among the previous nine, eight advanced to the Final Four and seven won the national championship. Afflalo has spoken often of his desire to leave a mark at UCLA, and he helped do so on a day Wooden and members of the 1967 national championship team, including Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Michael Warren, were honored at halftime. "It's good to go undefeated at home," Afflalo said. "Our fans deserve it." UCLA led all the way, although not by more than six points in the first half against a team that handed the Bruins one of their three road losses. In that defeat, UCLA blew a 17-point lead. |
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| Cardinal Basketball Tickets. Channing Frye had 20 points and 13 rebounds and Hassan Adams added 19 points and 10 boards for cold-shooting Arizona, which had averaged 90.4 points over its previous five games. Salim Stoudamire added 14 points for the Wildcats, who shot 38.4 percent.
Stanford beat Arizona for the third straight time and came out inspired in front of a near-capacity crowd at renovated Maples Pavilion. Grunfeld went 10-of-12, making all three of his 3-point tries. Hernandez was 3-for-5 from long range. |
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