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UCLA will play UNLV next season as part of home-and-home basketball series

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
By Ben Bolch
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UCLA announced Tuesday that it would play Nevada Las Vegas on Nov. 15 at Pauley Pavilion as part of a home-and-home series.

The Bruins will also play the Runnin’ Rebels on Nov. 17, 2020, at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas.

“We’re excited to add this home-and-home series with UNLV,” UCLA coach Mick Cronin said in a statement. “I have the utmost respect for head coach T.J. Otzelberger and athletic director Desiree Reed-Francois. It’s a win-win for both UCLA and UNLV to be able to face each other the next two seasons, and we’re looking forward to facing the Runnin’ Rebels in Pauley next November.”

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The meeting next season will be the first between the teams since they faced off in November 2015 at the Maui Invitational. UCLA has won all five of its meetings against UNLV since the teams first played in 1993, including both games at Pauley Pavilion.

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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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