UP NEXT FOR UCLA

By Steve Henson, Paul Gutierrez

Feb. 6, 2003 12 AM PT

Saturday at Georgetown (10-8), 10 a.m. PST, Channel 2 -- UCLA defeated the Hoyas, 98-91, last season at Pauley Pavilion in a rugged game officiated by Big East referees. The Bruins scored their regular-season high behind a combined 57 points from Dan Gadzuric, Matt Barnes and Billy Knight -- none of whom are still on the team.

-- Steve Henson

UP NEXT FOR USC

Sunday at Nevada Las Vegas (13-6), 12:45 p.m., Channel 7 -- The Trojans first played the Runnin’ Rebels in the 1993 NIT and, after beating them in 1998, hold a 3-2 series advantage. UNLV is led by senior point guard Marcus Banks (19.8 points, 5.5 assists) and senior forward Dalron Johnson (15.6 points, 6.8 rebounds) of Verbum Dei High.

-- Paul Gutierrez

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.

UP NEXT FOR UCLA

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