UCLA basketball records set in 2007-08

Team records

• Victories in a single year: 35 (previous: 32 in 1995 and 2006)
• Victories in a three-year span: 97
• Total games played: 39 (tied with 2006)

Individual records

• Consecutive starts: 39 by Josh Shipp (breaking 38 by Aaron Afflalo and Luc Richard Mbah a Moute in 2006)
• Games played: 39 by Shipp, Kevin Love, Russell Westbrook and Alfred Aboya (tied 2006's record by Afflalo, Mbah a Moute and Darren Collison)
• Points by a freshman: 681 by Love (previous: 577 by Don MacLean in 1989)
• Rebounds by a freshman: 415 by Love (previous: 318 by Mbah a Moute in 2006)
• Three-point field goal percentage: .525 by Collison (previous: .500 by Tracy Murray in 1992)
• Minutes played: 1,318 by Westbrook (most since this statistic was first tracked in 1979)

Also of note, Ben Howland is the first UCLA coach since John Wooden to win three straight conference championships. He joins Kentucky's Adolph Rupp and Memphis' John Calipari as the only coaches to win at least 30 games in three consecutive seasons.

Posted by: Adam Rose