It’s the phrase that sparked a remarkable run one year ago, saving a season and making UCLA one of the top stories in college basketball.
Listen closely and you’ll hear it again, back to bolster the Bruins for another late-season push.
“Each game for us,” guard Jaime Jaquez Jr. said Thursday night, “is basically playing in a tournament.”
The Bruins’ one-game tournament approach of playing with wild abandon has resulted in consecutive victories, the start of what they hope will be something special. A year ago, they won 11 of 14 games to put themselves in position for an NCAA tournament that was never played because of the emerging COVID-19 pandemic.