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UCLA basketball: Bruins open Pac-10 tournament against Arizona

By Chris Foster
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UCLA will face Arizona in the Pacific 10 Conference basketball tournament on Thursday at noon.

The Bruins enter the tournament as the fifth-seeded team and will face a Wildcats team they have lost to twice this season. Arizona beat UCLA, 77-63, in Westwood, and rallied in the second half Thursday for a 78-73 victory in Tucson.

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This is the lowest the Bruins have been seeded in the tournament since they were eighth in 2002-03, Coach Ben Howland’s first season in Westwood. If UCLA wins its first-round game it will play either California, Washington State or Oregon in the 6 p.m. game on Friday. Oregon and Washington State play in the first round game on Wednesday. The winner faces top-seeded California on Thursday.

-- Chris Foster

chris.foster@latimes.com

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Chris Foster

Chris Foster is a former sports writer for the Los Angeles Times who covered UCLA football and basketball, USC basketball, the Kings and the Ducks. He grew up in San Clemente, arriving long before Richard Nixon came to town. As a teen, he surfed, played football and basketball, and fell in love with sports journalism. Foster died Dec. 13, 2023.

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