UCLAX
The Bruins are quite the laid-back teams through the first four minutes of play. They've missed a couple of bunnies and some free throws as well and seem blithely unconcerned. It's 7-4, Bruins, as we go to the first TV timeout. A few things:
-- New UCLA football coach (and alum) Rick Neuheisel chatting with former UCLA hoops coach Jim Harrick out on the concourse between games.
-- Josh Shipp just hit one of free throws before the first timeout. That's Shipp's first point since the Mississippi Valley State game.
-- Kevin Love has put on his "Feed me, Seymour" mask. The frosh is just WAY TOO BIG and strong for any Hilltopper to climb. They've already fouled him twice and it's been too easy for UCLA to find him in the low post thus far. He hasn't even been fronted yet ("Dude, why you be frontin'?").
-- Seated right in front of the spot where the West Virginia sangria spill occurred in the first game is a Western Kentucky player named Orlando Mendez-Valdez. This is true.
--Tonight's tip-off was between UCLA's Kevin Love (6-10, 271) and WKU's Jeremy Evans (6-9, 190). That's right, 6-9, 190.
--The Hilltopper, mascot, I guess you can call him, kneels right at the end of the bench (he can high-five a player without moving) and looks a lot like Grimace's communist cousin. If you don't know who Grimace is, sorry, I'm old).
--The Hilltopper cheering section looks as if they'd be more fun at a family reunion than the Bruin cheering section (See, the joke here would be, "Dubs, it's Kentucky, that is a family reunion"....Listen, I will not have you besmirch them that way. I like the Hilltopper fans).
--I'm not sure if UCLA has made a basket from beyond eight feet yet. I'm not sure that they've needed to.
It's 15-13, Bruins, at the 11:27 mark. Wake up, Bruins. This game has about one-third the energy of the opener.
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