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In 1919, Fred Cozens became the first head coach of the UCLA basketball and football teams. Cozens coached the basketball team for two seasons, finishing with an overall record of 21–4. Caddy Works was the head coach of the Bruins from 1921 to 1939, guiding them to a 173–159 record. Works was a lawyer by profession and coached the team only ...
The 1964–65 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team won its second NCAA national championship under head coach John Wooden. [ 2 ] At Memorial Coliseum in Portland, Oregon , the #2 Bruins successfully defended their national title with a 91–80 win over top-ranked Michigan before 13,204.
The half time National Championship game score was UCLA 50, Duke 38. Duke's height was no advantage. Duke had two 6-foot-10-inch (2.08 m) players — Hack Tison and Jay Buckley. By winning the Championships, six Bruins automatically qualified for trials on the United States Olympic basketball team.
In the Final Four at Louisville, Kentucky, UCLA had a two-point lead at halftime over #11 Drake and won 85–82 to advance to the championship game against sixth-ranked Purdue. Wooden graduated from Purdue in 1932, after earning All-American honors as a guard on the school's basketball team that he captained during his junior and senior years.
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The 1965–66 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team finished the season in second place, under head coach John R. Wooden. It won the Los Angeles Classic Championship and completed the year with an 18–8 overall record.
The 1969–70 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team won its fourth consecutive NCAA National Basketball Championship, the sixth in seven years under head coach John Wooden, [1] despite the departure of Lew Alcindor to the NBA, with a win over Jacksonville. [2] The team was honored forty years later in 2010, at halftime of the UCLA-Oregon game on ...
The game was played on March 25, 1972, at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena in Los Angeles, California and featured the five-time defending national champion UCLA Bruins of the Pacific-8 Conference, and the independent Florida State Seminoles. The Bruins narrowly defeated the Seminoles to win their sixth consecutive national championship.