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The UCLA Bruins
UCLA Bruins
The UCLA Bruins are the sports teams for University of California, Los Angeles . The Bruin men's and women's teams participate in NCAA Division I as part of the Pacific-12 Conference and the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation . For football, they are in the Football Bowl Subdivision of Division I...

men's basketball program, established in 1920, owns a record 11 Division I NCAA championships

NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship

The NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship is a single-elimination tournament held each spring in the United States, featuring 68 college basketball teams, to determine the national championship in the top tier of college basketball...

. UCLA teams coached by John Wooden

John Wooden

John Robert Wooden was an American basketball player and coach. Nicknamed the "Wizard of Westwood", he won ten NCAA national championships in a 12-year period — seven in a row — as head coach at UCLA, an unprecedented feat. Within this period, his teams won a record 88 consecutive games...

won 10 national titles in 12 seasons from 1964 to 1975, including 7 straight from 1967 to 1973. UCLA went undefeated a record 4 times, in 1964, 1967, 1972, and 1973. Coach Jim Harrick

Jim Harrick

Jim Harrick is an American former basketball coach who coached at Pepperdine University, UCLA, the University of Rhode Island and the University of Georgia over a combined total of 23 seasons.-Biography:...

returned the program to the spotlight in 1995, leading the team to another NCAA title. Current coach Ben Howland

Ben Howland

Ben Howland is an American college head coach of men's basketball.He has been the head coach of the University of California, Los Angeles since 2003, and in 2008 signed an extension of his contract to run through 2015. Aggressive man-to-man defense is the trademark of Ben Howland-coached...

is also focusing on restoring Bruin Basketball to national prominence, having led UCLA to three consecutive Final Four appearances from 2006–2008.

NCAA records

UCLA men's basketball has set several NCAA records.

11 NCAA titles
7 consecutive NCAA titles (1967–1973)
13 NCAA title game appearances*
18 Final Four appearances*
10 consecutive Final Four appearances (1967–1976)
26 Final Four wins*
38 game NCAA Tournament winning streak (1964–1974)
134 weeks ranked #1 in AP Top 25 Poll
221 consecutive weeks ranked in AP Top 25 Poll (1966–1980)
54 consecutive winning seasons (1949–2002)
88 game men's regular season winning streak (1971–1974)
4 Perfect undefeated seasons, 1964, 1967, 1972, 1973

http://www.ncaa.org/library/records/basketball/m_basketball_records_book/2006/2006_m_basketball_records.pdf
http://www.laalmanac.com/sports/sp10rda.htm
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* Includes 1980 tournament results vacated by NCAA

Season-by-season results

^†Loss later forfeited by Oregon State.
^‡Loss later forfeited by California.
*vacated by NCAA

Source: UCLA Bruins men's basketball history

Coaches

Head Coach	Years	Win-Loss	Pct.
Fred W. Cozens Fred Cozens -References:...	1919–1921	20–4	.833
Pierce “Caddy” Works Caddy Works Pierce "Caddy" Works was a college men's basketball coach. He was the head coach of the University of California, Los Angeles from 1921 to 1939, guiding them to a 173-159 record....	1921–1939	173–159	.521
Wilbur Johns Wilbur Johns Wilbur Johns was a college men's basketball coach. He was the head coach of the University of California, Los Angeles from 1939 to 1948, guiding them to a 93-120 record. He became the school's athletic director following his head coaching tenure. He is a 1985 inductee to the UCLA Athletics Hall of...	1939–1948	93–120	.437
John Wooden John Wooden John Robert Wooden was an American basketball player and coach. Nicknamed the "Wizard of Westwood", he won ten NCAA national championships in a 12-year period — seven in a row — as head coach at UCLA, an unprecedented feat. Within this period, his teams won a record 88 consecutive games...	1948–1975	620–147	.808
Gene Bartow Gene Bartow Gene Bartow is a former men's college basketball coach. The Browning, Missouri, native coached 36 years at six universities after coaching two high schools in Missouri for six years.-High school:...	1975–1977	52–9	.852
Gary Cunningham Gary Cunningham Gary Cunningham is a college men's basketball coach. He was the head coach of the University of California, Los Angeles men's basketball team from 1977 to 1979, guiding them to a 50–8 record. He has the highest winning percentage of any coach in UCLA men's basketball history . This puts him ahead...	1977–1979	50–8	.862
Larry Brown Larry Brown (basketball) Lawrence Harvey "Larry" Brown is an American basketball coach and former player. He most recently served as head coach of the National Basketball Association's Charlotte Bobcats....	1979–1981	42–17	.712
Larry Farmer Larry Farmer (basketball coach) Larry Farmer is an American college basketball coach currently an assistant coach for the Western Michigan Broncos men's basketball team. He was the head coach of the University of California, Los Angeles from 1981 to 1984, guiding them to a 61–23 record. In 1985, Farmer became the head coach for...	1981–1984	61–23	.726
Walt Hazzard Walt Hazzard Walter "Walt" Raphael Hazzard Jr. , also known as Mahdi Abdul-Rahman, was an American college, Olympic, and professional basketball player and college basketball coach...	1984–1988	77–47	.621
Jim Harrick Jim Harrick Jim Harrick is an American former basketball coach who coached at Pepperdine University, UCLA, the University of Rhode Island and the University of Georgia over a combined total of 23 seasons.-Biography:...	1988–1996	192–62	.756
Steve Lavin Steve Lavin Steve Lavin is an American basketball coach and former player. He is currently the head men's basketball coach at St. John's University in Queens, New York. Lavin previously served as the head coach for UCLA....	1996–2003	145–78	.650
Ben Howland Ben Howland Ben Howland is an American college head coach of men's basketball.He has been the head coach of the University of California, Los Angeles since 2003, and in 2008 signed an extension of his contract to run through 2015. Aggressive man-to-man defense is the trademark of Ben Howland-coached...	2003–	182–80	.695

Source:

Athletic Department, University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, Los Angeles
The University of California, Los Angeles is a public research university located in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, USA. It was founded in 1919 as the "Southern Branch" of the University of California and is the second oldest of the ten campuses...

Current roster

By the numbers

National titles — 11
Final Fours — 18
Conference titles — 30
20-win seasons — 44
30-win seasons — 8
Winning seasons — 71
.500 or better — 73
NCAA tourney bids — 42
All-America (1st team) — 37
All-conference (1st team) — 118
NBA players — 76
Most NBA MVP winners — 7
Draft picks (1st round) — 33
Current NBA players — 14
Olympians — 8
Naismith Hall-of-Fame — 6
McDonald's All-Americans — 29
Retired jerseys — 7 (#25 Gail Goodrich, #31 Ed O'Bannon, #32 Bill Walton, #33 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Lew Alcindor), #35 Sidney Wicks, #42 Walt Hazzard, #54 Marques Johnson

Basketball Hall of Fame

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (1995)
Larry Brown (2002), coach
Denny Crum (1994), coach
Gail Goodrich (1996)
Bill Walton (1993)
John Wooden (1960, 1972), player and coach

Bruins in the NBA

78 former UCLA players have gone on to play in the National Basketball Association

National Basketball Association

The National Basketball Association is the pre-eminent men's professional basketball league in North America. It consists of thirty franchised member clubs, of which twenty-nine are located in the United States and one in Canada...

(NBA) .basketball-reference.com counts 77 players, but is missing Brett Vroman. The UCLA Media Guide did not count John Vallely.

# NBA All-Star	The number of times the player had been selected to play in the NBA All-Star GameIncludes All-Star games in the American Basketball Association American Basketball Association The American Basketball Association was a professional basketball league founded in 1967. The ABA ceased to exist with the ABA–NBA merger in 1976.-League history:... (ABA), which merged with the NBA in 1976.
^	Denotes player who is still active in the NBA

PlayerIncludes players in the American Basketball Association American Basketball Association The American Basketball Association was a professional basketball league founded in 1967. The ABA ceased to exist with the ABA–NBA merger in 1976.-League history:... (ABA), which merged with the NBA in 1976.	UCLA Career	# NBA All-Star	NBA All-Star Year(s)
	1967–69	19	1970–77, 1979–89
^	2005–07	0
	1967–68	0
	1977–80	0
^	2004	0
	1995–98	0
	1947	0
^	1999–02	0
	1970–72	0
	2002–04, 2006	0
	1990–93	0
^	2006–09	0
^	1997–99	2	2002, 2004
	1980–83	0
	1973–76	0
	1981–82	1	1989
	1992–95	0
	1963–65	0
^	2005–06	0
	1981–84	0
	1980–83	0
^	1999–02	0
	1963–65	5	1969, 1972–75
	1982–84	0
	1976–79	0
	1985–87	0
	1976–79	0
	1962–64	1	1968
	1995–98	0
^	2008–09	0
	1976–79	0
^	2003–06	0
	1980–83	0
	1981–84	0
	1974–77	5	1979–81, 1983, 1986
^	2000–03	0
	1965–66	0
	1972–74	0
^	2008	1	2011
	1965–66, 1968	0
	1989–92	0
	1988, 1990–92	0
	1989–92	0
^	2006–08	0
	1974–76	0
	1996–98	0
	1973–75	0
	1984–87	5	1990, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2000
	1947–48	0
	1999–00	0
	1990–92	0
	1972–73	2	1974–75
	1954–56	4	1958, 1960–62
	1994–97	0
	1992–95	0
	1988–91	0
	1969–71	0
	1993	0
	1986–89	0
	1969–71	0
	1979–82	0
	1946, 1949–50	0
	1967–69	0
	2002–05	0
	1975–78	0
	1968–70	0
	1977–80	2	1983–84
	1975–77	0
	1972–74	2	1977–78
	1974–76	0
^	1998–01	0
^	2007–08	1	2011
	1969–71	4	1972–75
	1972–74	3	1976, 1981, 1983
	1977–80	0
	1987–90	0
	1982–85	0
	1992–95	0

Notable players

The 13 players who have played on three NCAA Division I Championship basketball teams: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Sidney Wicks, Curtis Rowe, Lynn Shackelford, Larry Farmer, Henry Bibby, Steve Patterson, Kenny Heitz, Jon Chapman, John Ecker, Andy Hill, Terry Scholfield, and Bill Sweek.

UCLA became the first school to have a top winner in both basketball and football in the same year with Gary Beban

Gary Beban

Gary Joseph Beban is a former American football player. Son of an Italian-born mother and a first generation Croatian-American father, Beban won the 1967 Heisman Trophy, the most prestigious award in college football, and the Maxwell Award, while playing quarterback for the University of...

winning the Heisman Trophy and Lew Alcindor (now Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is a retired American professional basketball player. He is the NBA's all-time leading scorer, with 38,387 points. During his career with the NBA's Milwaukee Bucks and Los Angeles Lakers from 1969 to 1989, Abdul-Jabbar won six NBA championships and a record six regular season...

) winning the U.S. Basketball Writers Association

Oscar Robertson Trophy

The Oscar Robertson Trophy is given out annually to outstanding men's college basketball players by the United States Basketball Writers Association . The trophy is considered to be the oldest of its kind and has been given out since 1959...

player of the year award in 1968.

UCLA has produced the most NBA Most Valuable Player Award

NBA Most Valuable Player Award

The National Basketball Association Most Valuable Player is an annual National Basketball Association award given since the 1955–56 NBA season. The winner receives the Maurice Podoloff Trophy, which is named in honor of the first commissioner of the NBA who served from 1946 until his retirement...

winners, six of them by Abdul-Jabbar and one to Walton, who was Abdul-Jabbar's successor.

Conferences

Years	Conferences	Win–Loss	Pct.
1919–1920	None	—	—
1920–1927	Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference The Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference is a college athletic conference that operates in the NCAA's Division III. The conference was founded in 1915 and it consists of twelve small private schools which are located in Southern California and organized into nine athletic programs...	63–6	.913
1927–1959	Pacific Coast Conference (PCC) Pacific Coast Conference The Pacific Coast Conference was a college athletic conference in the United States which existed from 1915 to 1959. Though the Pacific-12 Conference claims the PCC's history as part of its own, the older league had a completely different charter and was disbanded in 1959 due to a major crisis...
1959–1968	Athletic Association of Western Universities (AAWU)	99–21	.825
1968–1978	Pacific-8 Conference	129–11	.921
1978–2011	Pacific-10 Conference	365–166	.687
2011–present	Pacific-12 Conference

Facilities

The men's basketball team played in the 2000 seat Men's Gym

Men's Gym

The Men's Gym on the campus of UCLA, now known as the Student Activities Center, is a 2,000 seat multi-purpose arena in Los Angeles, California. It opened in 1932. It was home to the UCLA Bruins men's basketball teams until Pauley Pavilion opened for the 1965-1966 basketball season. It was...

from 1932 to 1965. They played at other venues around Los Angeles including the Pan-Pacific Auditorium

Pan-Pacific Auditorium

The Pan-Pacific Auditorium was a landmark structure in the Fairfax District of Los Angeles, California which once stood at 7600 West Beverly Boulevard near the site of Gilmore Field, an early Los Angeles baseball venue predating Dodger Stadium...

and Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena

Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena

The Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena is a multi-purpose arena, in the University Park neighborhood, of Los Angeles, California, at Exposition Park. It is located next to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, just south of the campus of the University of Southern California.-History:The Los Angeles...

. In 1965, Pauley Pavilion

Pauley Pavilion

Edwin W. Pauley Pavilion, commonly known as Pauley Pavilion, is an indoor arena located in the Westwood Village district of Los Angeles, California, on the campus of UCLA. It is home to the UCLA Bruins men's and women's basketball teams...

was built on campus and has been the home of Bruin Basketball since that time. While Pauley Pavilion is being renovated, the men's basketball will play its 2011-12 season home games at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena