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UCLA basketball: Bruins fall short in wild finish against Kansas

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
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It was nearly the night the lights went out in Kansas.

UCLA put the Jayhawks’ epic home winning streak in serious jeopardy, with Bruins sophomore forward Tyler Honeycutt making a three-pointer with four seconds left to tie the score.

But Malcolm Lee fouled Mario Little with seven-tenths of a second left, Little made the first of two free throws and Kansas held on for a 77-76 victory that stretched its school-record winning streak on its home floor to 64 games.

Honeycutt finished with a career-high 33 points, including a pair of four-point plays.

--Ben Bolch, reporting from Lawrence, Kan.

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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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