Up next for UCLA: Thursday at Oregon State

By Ben Bolch

Jan. 12, 2011 12 AM PT

AT OREGON STATE

When: 5:30 p.m.

Where: Gill Coliseum, Corvallis, Ore.

On the air: TV: Prime Ticket; Radio: 570.

Records: UCLA 9-6, 1-2 Pacific 10 Conference; Oregon State 7-8, 2-2.

Record vs. opponent: UCLA leads all time, 87-33.

Update: Like the Bruins, the Beavers have been something of an enigma. They lost to Seattle University, Utah Valley and Montana before sweeping Arizona State and Arizona at home to open conference play. “We have the capability of playing really well,” Oregon State Coach Craig Robinson said, “but we still have the youth who has the capability of playing terribly.”

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Ben Bolch

Ben Bolch has been a Los Angeles Times staff writer since 1999. He is serving his second stint as the UCLA beat writer, which seems fitting since he has covered almost every sports beat except hockey and horse racing. Bolch is also the author of the recently released book “100 Things UCLA Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die.” He previously covered UCLA basketball from 2010-11 before going on to cover the NBA and the Clippers for five years. He happily traded in gobs of hotel points and airline miles to return to cover UCLA basketball and football in the summer of 2016. Bolch was once selected by NBA TV’s “The Starters” as the “Worst of the Week” after questioning their celebrity journalism-style questions at an NBA All-Star game and considers it one of his finer moments.

Up next for UCLA: Thursday at Oregon State

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