UCLA TONIGHT

By Steve Henson

Dec. 27, 2001 12 AM PT

vs. Columbia, 7:30

Site--Pauley Pavilion.

Radio--KXTA (1150, 850), KPLS (830).

Records--UCLA 7-2, Columbia 7-4.

Update--Columbia is fresh off a pleasant Hawaiian holiday, arriving in Los Angeles from Oahu on Christmas Day after going 1-2 in the BYU Hawaii Sports Invitational. UCLA has not played a team from the Ivy League since Princeton upset the Bruins in the first round of the 1996 NCAA tournament. Craig Austin, a 6-foot-6 forward, was Ivy League player of the year last season and averages 18.1 points.

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Steve Henson

Steve Henson is a reporter with the Fast Break sports team at the Los Angeles Times. He previously served as an assistant editor and reporter in the Sports department. Henson was a leader in digital-only newsrooms from 2007-19 as a senior editor and columnist at Yahoo Sports and as senior editor at the USA Today Sports Media Group. This is his second stint at The Times, having covered the Dodgers and UCLA as well as doing enterprise, investigative and features writing from 1985-2007. Henson was awarded first place in sports features in 2021 by the L.A. Press Club and has been honored several times by the Associated Press Sports Editors (APSE) and also by the California News Publishers Assn., the Football Writers Assn. of America and U.S. Basketball Writers Assn.

UCLA TONIGHT

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