Wildcats pitch a shutout in OT as Bruins run out of gas
by Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times
Mar 10, 2018
4 minutes
LAS VEGAS - The resilient UCLA basketball team played a brilliant regulation basketball game Friday night, battling through exhaustion to hang with heavyweight Arizona for 40 sweat-soaked minutes.
But then the buzzer sounded and the short-handed Bruins were introduced to the one opponent they could not handle.
Overtime.
The tie game required five more minutes, and the Bruins didn't have enough left for five more seconds. Their shots clanked, their legs wobbled, their judgment failed.
In regulation, the Bruins scored 67 points. In overtime, they scored zero.
In the end, Arizona used an 11-0 overtime shutout to
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