TUCSON —
Whether filled to the rafters or dotted with cardboard fan cutouts, what’s usually the most raucous home court in the Pac-12 Conference has dialed down the decibel level in recent years whenever UCLA visits.
Silence has hung uncomfortably inside the McKale Center, where the Bruins keep making themselves entirely too comfortable for the Wildcats’ liking.
They did it again Saturday night despite nearly running out of big men and repeatedly turning the ball over on inbounds plays, the Bruins holding on for an 81-76 victory over Arizona that kept them alone atop the conference standings and gave them a fourth consecutive triumph on this court.