BARTON
Jayhawks trail 58-51 with 2:59 to play. KU fans might be heartened to learn that in the Division II men's hoops final earlier today, Barton came back from a 6-point deficit in the final minute to defeat Winona--and end that school's 57-game win streak.
60-51 UCLA with 1:36 to play. The nail in the coffin may have been Mbah a Moute's block of Russell Robinson's shot after that acrobatic drive just to get to the hoop.
Brandon Rush just scored off a sweet baseline reverse layup to make it 60-53. Man, is he Pippenesque. You watch a play like that and you wonder why he didn't impose himself on the game more forcefully earlier. That is one gifted hoopster.
60-53, Woodens.
Afflalo just got the shooter's touch on the front end of a one-and-one. Missed the second, but it may not matter. KU missed a layup to follow. Now Collison's on the line.
62-53 with less than a minute to play.
Walton is high-fiving the fans around him.
Arthur just made a put-back of yet another missed KU layup. It's 63-55, UCLA, with 45.3 to play. Kansas, Think Barton.
KU just drove down the court and Chalmers made a sweet pass to Arhur down low. But Arthur had it swiped from his clutch the moment he caught it. That's been UCLA all night. Great interior defense.
Now the white flag is up. UCLA is going back to the Final Four.
UCLA 68, Kansas 55.
The Bruins move to 5-0 all-time versus Kansas in the NCAA tournament.
Dareen Collison and Arron Afflalo are walking over to do sideline interviews as the "UCLA" chant drowns out the background. Now all of the Bruins are joining Coach Ben Howland for the TV interview with Dick Enberg, who was the KTLA broacaster of Bruin games from 1965-1974.
Who replaced him?
Al Michaels.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but we could have a rematch of last year's national championship contest in the semifinal next Saturday. That is, if Florida beats Oregon. If not, we've got an all Pac-10 national semi.
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