Steve Alford’s Bruins are slowly-but-surely playing their way out of the NCAA tournament, a fact that was unthinkable heading into the season.
Cincinnati came into Pauley Pavilion, struggled early, but eventually started playing their game, which led to a 13 point halftime lead, and eventually an easy victory over the Bruins by the score of 77-63. This was, again, another bad performance from the Bruins, and a bad coaching job from Steve Alford.
The obvious reason UCLA lost was turnovers. UCLA entered the game averaging 13 turnovers a game, and had already beaten that mark at halftime with 15.