Ucla Men Falter In Second Half To Sub-.500 Minnesota

MINNEAPOLIS — UCLA’s Tyler Bilodeau poured successful 32 points, 2 awkward of his profession high, and had 8 rebounds while Donovan Dent tied his profession precocious pinch 15 assists, but nan Bruins fell 78-73 to Minnesota connected Saturday afternoon.

Bobby Durkin, Cade Tyson and Langston Reynolds mixed to people 65 points to lead nan Golden Gophers (14-15, 7-11 Big Ten Conference), who person won 3 of their past four, pinch their lone nonaccomplishment coming to No. 3 Michigan connected Feb 24.

Dent (three points) and Trent Perry changeable a mixed 1 of 13 from nan section successful nan loss.

UCLA (19-10, 11-7) led 41-40 astatine halftime and stretched its lead to 50-45 early successful nan 2nd half erstwhile Eric Dailey, who vanished pinch 18 points, dunked disconnected an alley-oop walk from Dent.

The people was tied 61-61 erstwhile Bilodeau sank a short slope changeable pinch 7:59 near to play, but Minnesota would rally to forge a 71-64 lead pinch 3:45 remaining successful nan crippled erstwhile Tyson scored six of nan Golden Gophers’ 10 points connected 2 baskets and 2 free throws.

The Bruins would get nary person than 3 points nan remainder of nan way. Bilodeau and Dent each missed three-point shots successful nan last infinitesimal that could person tied nan score.

Durkin scored 23 points exclusively connected his seven-of-11 shooting from beyond nan three-point arc, earlier hitting a brace of free throws pinch 12 seconds near to seal nan win. Tyson and Reynolds each scored 21. Tyson changeable 8 of 12 from nan section and 3 of 5 connected three-pointers. Reynolds was eight-of-14 shooting to spell pinch six assists.

Bilodeau changeable 13 of 21 from nan section while Dailey, who had six rebounds, made 8 of 10 shots. Skyy Clark had 17 and 5 assists.

Up next: UCLA will big No. 12 Nebraska connected Tuesday; Minnesota will look Indiana connected nan roadworthy connected Wednesday.