UCLA dominates rival USC to fasten up double bye in Large Ten match

UCLA’s Aday Mara tries to paintings the low publish towards USC’s Matt Knowling all through the Bruins’ 90-63 win Saturday night time at Pauley Pavilion. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Occasions)Aday Mara corralled the ball within the paint because the seconds trickled towards 0. The 7-foot-3 Bruin bench large battled 4 Trojans surrounding him and lifted a shot a couple of ft from the basket.Mara transformed the bucket, generated a bad name and made the loose throw. The sophomore pumped his arm up and down. One. Two. 3. The and-one layup to finish the primary part let the just about sold-out Pauley Pavilion crowd breathe because the Bruins hustled into the locker room up by way of 12 issues.Learn extra: UCLA routs Ohio State to arrange Large Ten name showdown with USCUCLA managed its future Saturday night time — and Mara, at the side of the remainder of the Bruins, performed find it irresistible. Illinois beat Purdue. Penn State disappointed Wisconsin. Maryland treated Northwestern. The quadruple mixture to safe a double bye into the Large Ten males’s basketball match quarterfinals was once as much as UCLA to finish.And the Bruins did, with little resistance. In contrast to UCLA’s travel to the Galen Heart just a little greater than a month in the past, trainer Mick Cronin’s squad ditched back-and-forth basketball, the usage of a 14-2 run around the first seven-plus mins and a 51-point 2nd part to finish the common season with a 90-63 win.UCLA’s 27-point win was once its greatest over USC since 2017. The Trojans completed beneath .500 for the second one consecutive season.UCLA’s Eric Dailey Jr. celebrates after capturing a three-pointer towards USC on Saturday night time. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Occasions)Eric Dailey Jr., whose smirks and antics charged the gang each and every time he was once proven at the video board, scored a career-high 25 issues. The sophomore recorded 14 issues in the second one part, spearheading an offensive effort that helped give the Bruins (22-9, 13-7 Large Ten) a 36-point lead at one level.Along side Mara and junior ahead Tyler Bilodeau — who scored 14 and 12 issues, respectively — the Bruins bullied the Trojans (15-16, 7-13) inside of for 32 issues within the paint. UCLA shot above 60% from the sector in each halves.Wesley Yates III completed with a team-high 21 issues for USC, which had 20 turnovers.Regardless of the loss, USC will play within the first spherical of the Large Ten match on Wednesday. UCLA will play within the quarterfinals Friday.Get the most efficient, maximum attention-grabbing and strangest tales of the day from the L.A. sports activities scene and past from our e-newsletter The Sports activities Record.This tale at the start seemed in Los Angeles Occasions.