The 2010–11 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team represented the

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during the

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. The Bruins were led by head coach

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and played their home games at

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. They finished the conference season in second place (13–5), and were a 2-seed at the 2011 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball tournament, where they lost to 7-seed

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in the quarterfinals. They received an at-large bid in the

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as the #7 seeded team in the Southeast Region, where they defeated #10 seed

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before falling to #2 seed

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in the third round. They finished the season 23–11.

Recruiting class

Roster

Schedule

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Rankings

Honors

Malcolm Lee,

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, and Reeves Nelson were named to the All-Pac-10 first team. The three selection were the most of any team in the

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. It's the first time the Bruins have had that many first-team selections since

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, Jelani McCoy and Charles O'Bannon were picked in

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. Lee was also selected to the Pac-10 All-Defensive team, while Joshua Smith was named to the Pac-10 All-Freshmen team.

Notes

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joined the team as director of basketball operations on August 2, 2010 * October 28, 2010 - The Bruins were picked to finish 3rd, with one first place vote, in the conference by the media in the annual preseason poll. * December 10, 2010 – guard Matt Carlino left the team and would transfer to play at another school. * The 66-59 win over St. John's on February 5, 2011 was UCLA'S first in seven tries (UCLA hadn't beaten the Red Storm since Dec. 1968). * February 26, 2011 – Tyler Trapani,

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's great-grandson scored the last two points of the last men's basketball game in

before the building goes into renovation for a year. The final shot is recorded as "Trapani (Wooden's great-grandson) left side layin off Haley's (Jack) missed 3-pt. try." * March 17, 2011 - UCLA is making its 44th appearance in the NCAA basketball tournament. The Bruins have 99 tournament wins, third on the all-time list. Ben Howland took the Bruins to the tournament six times in his eight years as head coach and the Final Four in 2006, 2007 and 2008. * March 28, 2011 –

announced that he will declare for the

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and will hire an agent. *April 1, 2011 - Assistant Coach Scott Duncan left the team to become the associate head coach at

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. *April 12, 2011 - Lee announced he would forgo his final year of college eligibility and hire an agent and enter the 2011 NBA draft.

References

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