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UCLA’s Thomas Welsh and USC’s Jordan McLaughlin to play in Reese’s College All-Star basketball game

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
By Ben Bolch
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UCLA’s Thomas Welsh and USC’s Jordan McLaughlin are among 20 college seniors who have been selected to compete in the Reese’s Division I All-Star basketball game at 1:35 p.m. Pacific time Friday at the Alamodome in San Antonio as part of the Final Four weekend festivities.

While Welsh and Colorado’s George King will compete for the East All-Star Team, McLaughlin will play for the West.

Welsh averaged 12.6 points and 10.8 rebounds per game last season, recording UCLA’s highest single-season rebounding average since David Greenwood snatched 11.4 rebounds per game in 1977-78.

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McLaughlin averaged 12.8 points and 7.8 assists per game last season.

Other UCLA players to have participated in the Reese’s game included Bryce Alford (2017) and Larry Drew II (2013).

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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.

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