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By Steve Henson

Jan. 17, 2004 12 AM PT

vs. No. 7 Arizona, 3 p.m., Channel 7

Site -- Pauley Pavilion

Radio -- XTRA 1150/690

Records -- UCLA 9-3, 5-0 in Pacific 10; Arizona 10-3, 2-2.

Update -- The Bruins will be unable to double-team Wildcat center Channing Frye as often as they did Arizona State’s Ike Diogu because Frye is surrounded by better shooters. Frye averages 14.9 points and shoots 52%, but six of his teammates average at least nine points a game. UCLA 7-foot center Michael Fey averages the fewest rebounds of any Bruin starter. Guard Brian Morrison remains sidelined because of a hamstring injury. Lute Olson’s next victory will make him the Wildcats’ all-time leader. Olson is 509-150 in 21 seasons at Arizona; Fred Enke was 509-324 in a 36-season career that ended in 1961.

-- 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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