Bill Plaschke: The message is loud and clear: UCLA basketball is back
LOS ANGELES — Pauley Pavilion was actually hot, steaming on a November night, sweat dripping across white shirts and pumping fists. Pauley Pavilion was actually loud, seats shaking, walls creaking, noise flowing down in waves that startled and suffocated. One of this city's grandest sports venues is acting like a kid again, revived by the return of an old friend that some feared had been lost ...
LOS ANGELES — Pauley Pavilion was actually hot, steaming on a November night, sweat dripping across white shirts and pumping fists.
Pauley Pavilion was actually loud, seats shaking, walls creaking, noise flowing down in waves that startled and suffocated.
One of this city's grandest sports venues is acting like a kid again, revived by the return of an old friend that some feared had been lost forever.
UCLA basketball is officially back.
What was promised in an Indiana bubble last spring has come to fruition in a Westwood celebration that began Friday night in the second-ranked Bruins' 86-77 overtime win over fourth-ranked Villanova.
