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‘Our opponents are going to need oxygen’: UCLA reveals depth, pressure in scrimmage

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Oct. 16, 2024 4 AM PT

UCLA split its basketball roster into two teams for a scrimmage Tuesday evening, and one thing became readily apparent.

Either would have beaten last year’s starting lineup.

These Bruins are deeper, more talented and feistier than the freshman-heavy bunch that finished with a losing record. Bringing in six veteran transfers certainly helped.

A year after UCLA struggled to shoot, the Bruins showed during the intrasquad scrimmage inside Pauley Pavilion all the ways they might be tough to top. They can make a high percentage of three-pointers.