The type of emotion the UCLA men’s basketball team carried into its first meeting with Oregon State this season is the opposite of the feeling accompanying it into the second.
The level of emotion, however, is nearly identical.
Entering Sunday’s matchup with Oregon State, No. 10 UCLA is coming off Thursday’s roller-coaster victory over No. 5 Oregon in which the Bruins overcame a 19-point deficit.
When it visited Oregon State on Dec. 30, UCLA was fresh off the other end of a dramatic game. The Bruins had just blown a four-point lead in the final 15 seconds of a loss to Oregon on Dillon Brooks’ 3-pointer at the buzzer.