UCLA men’s basketball players celebrate around the Bruin bench. (Aidan Sun/Assistant Photo editor)
Five people play on the court.
But it is the 10 others on the roster that turn a good team into a great one.
From the sixth man to the No.
No. 1 seed UCLA women’s basketball and No. 7 seed UCLA men’s basketball are both returning to the “Big Dance” for the 2025-26 campaign – with the former holding a stake of the title odds and the latter looking to go past the Sweet Sixteen for the first time since the 2020-21 season.
No. 1 UCLA men’s volleyball (16-0, 5-0 MPSF) will travel to Manoa, Hawaii, to compete at the Outrigger Invitational in a three-game gauntlet that runs from Thursday to Saturday at SimpliFi Arena.
This post was updated March 9 at 11:11 p.m.
The NIL era has elicited an immense amount of turnover through the transfer portal.
And UCLA softball lost two ostensibly pivotal pieces in former Bruin pitchers Kaitlyn Terry and Addisen Fisher ahead of its 2026 campaign.
This post was updated March 3 at 10:53 p.m.
No. 1 UCLA men’s volleyball (14-0, 3-0 MPSF) will face crosstown rival No. 5 USC (8-1, 1-0) twice this week, first at the Galen Center on Tuesday and then at Pauley Pavilion on Friday.
This post was updated Jan. 27 at 10:24 p.m.
Andy Banachowski was the UCLA women’s volleyball head coach for all but two seasons between 1965 and 2009 – coaching his first three campaigns as a student at UCLA and athlete on the men’s team.
Once is an accident.
Twice is a coincidence.
Thrice is a pattern.
But what does it mean when it happens 14 times?
That is the number of national championships UCLA men’s water polo has won, which accounts for over 10% of UCLA’s 125 NCAA titles.
The modern sports fan hive mind lacks a backbone.
The spineless creature operates on pure emotion in place of a brain.
When things are good, things are perfect – happiness is deserved, hope is everlasting and both the people and processes that made success happen in the first place could never do anything wrong.
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