In a battle of the Pac-12 Conference’s first- and last-place teams, UCLA looked like the winless bunch in the opening half Saturday.
The Bruins couldn’t make shots or do much of anything on defense against Washington while falling behind and facing their biggest halftime deficit of the season.
UCLA fought back from the 10-point hole and looked like it would win comfortably when Jaime Jaquez Jr. drove from the corner for a two-handed dunk that gave the Bruins a seven-point lead with less than two minutes left.
But it took a defensive stop in the final seconds, Jaylen Clark contesting Erik Stevenson’s three-pointer that could have tied the score bouncing off the back of the rim and leading to UCLA’s 81-76 victory over the Huskies at Pauley Pavilion.