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By Steve Henson

Dec. 14, 2002 12 AM PT

vs. Portland, 5, Fox Sports Net 2

Site -- Pauley Pavilion.

Radio -- KXTA (1150).

Records -- UCLA 1-2, Portland 3-2.

Update -- Portland is undersized, playing a three-guard lineup. Post players Dustin Geddis and Ghislain Sema are each 6 feet 7. Guard Casey Frandsen, averaging 12.6 points, is the top scorer but is shooting only 34.5%. Michael Fey or Ryan Hollins will start at center for UCLA and T.J. Cummings will play forward. Reserve point guard Ryan Walcott, who had seven assists and no turnovers against Long Beach State, is expected to play a prominent role.

-- Steve Henson

UCLA Sports

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.

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