| Mode: | basketball |
| Year: | 1995–96 |
| Team: | UCLA Bruins |
| Conference: | Pacific-10 |
| Short Conf: | Pac-10 |
| Coachrank: | 19[1] |
| Aprank: | 14 |
| Record: | 23–8 |
| Conf Record: | 16–2 |
| Head Coach: | Jim Harrick |
| Hc Year: | 8th |
| Asst Coach1: | Lorenzo Romar |
| Asst Coach2: | Steve Lavin |
| Asst Coach3: | Greg White |
| Stadium: | Pauley Pavilion |
| Champion: | Pac-10 regular season champions |
| Bowl: | NCAA tournament |
| Bowl Result: | Round of 64 |
The 1995–96 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team represented the University of California, Los Angeles in the 1995–96 NCAA Division I men's basketball season as Defending National Champions from 1995, but bookended the season with two disappointing losses. While ranked #4, one loss was in the Maui Classic to a Santa Clara team led by then obscure guard Steve Nash. The team finished 1st in the conference. The Bruins competed in the 1996 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, flopping in a spectacular upset to the unranked Princeton Tigers in the round of 64. This was the final season for head coach Jim Harrick, a national championship coach who was fired over a transgression where he lied about two current players attending a recruiting dinner at Monty's Steakhouse, in contravention of NCAA rules.[2]
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