UCLA Tonight

By Steve Henson

Dec. 17, 2002 12 AM PT

Northern Arizona at UCLA,

7:30 p.m.

Site -- Pauley Pavilion.

Records -- Northern Arizona 5-2, UCLA 2-2.

TV -- None.

Radio -- Fox Sports (1150).

Update -- After a horrendous start, UCLA is gathering momentum in time to face Kansas on the road Saturday. The Bruins defeated Portland, 105-67, Saturday for their second decisive victory in a row. They beat Long Beach State, 81-58, on Dec. 8, ending a losing streak that included two regular-season games and two exhibitions. Rebounding remains a concern, but UCLA is getting better, outrebounding Portland, 61-31. Forward Andre Patterson played seven minutes in his first action since becoming eligible and gives the Bruins a stronger post presence. UCLA should be able to crank up the tempo against Northern Arizona, a Big Sky Conference team that has won four in a row since losing, 101-65, to Arizona on Nov. 27.

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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.

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