Kevin requests more Kanye West and starts watching The Sopranos, Daily Bruin senior staffer and basketball columnist Ryan Menezes stops by with his statistical analysis of Larry Drew II — probably UCLA’s most dynamic player last season — and Approach the Bench makes a return.

Steve Alford may have established his image as the clean-cut basketball hero of an entire state decades ago, but when he was announced as the next men’s basketball coach of UCLA, all I could see in him was Ben Howland.

AUSTIN, Texas – If UCLA’s season is ending today, it is doing so in a most unspectacular fashion.
The Bruins are struggling to make baskets, but they haven’t had the ball much anyway.

In the final stages of his UCLA men’s basketball career, more controversy is shining down on Shabazz Muhammad.