Some of UCLA's biggest names are honored

UCLA honored its first two national championship teams teams Saturday at Pauley Pavilion.

A halftime ceremony featured a speech from John Wooden, who guided the Bruins to those titles in 1964 and 1965. He went on to claim eight more — all 10 in just a 12-year span. Wooden was helped onto the court by Kenny Washington, who was on both of those squads.  Fellow back-to-back champions Keith Erickson and Jerry Norman were on hand. They were joined by Chuck Darrow, Kent Graham, Mike Huggins, Kim Stewart, Fred Slaughter, Jack Hirsch and Walt Hazzard from the 1964 team and Ted Henry, John Galbraith, Mike Lynn, Bill Ureda and Freddie Goss from the 1965 team.

The 1964 squad went 30-0 for the school's first perfect season. The 1965 team finished 28-2, averaging 100 points per game in the NCAA tournament. The current Bruins did their best imitation Saturday, ripping apart Stanford, 97-63.

Another person from UCLA's past, Steve Lavin, also was there. He was one of the broadcasters for ABC. When asked by a colleague if, during his coaching career, he ever thought that his team was getting better and wished he had two or three more weeks at the end of the season, he said "yes" — his final year at UCLA.

—Adam Rose

Photo: Reed Saxon / Associated Press