2010–11 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team explained

Mode:	Basketball
Year:	2010–11
Team:	UCLA Bruins
Conference:	Pacific-10 Conference
Short Conf:	Pac-10
Record:	23 - 11
Conf Record:	13 - 5
Hc Year:	8th
Asst Coach1:	Scott Duncan
Bowl Result:	Round of 32

The 2010–11 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team represented the University of California, Los Angeles during the 2010–11 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Bruins were led by head coach Ben Howland and played their home games at Pauley Pavilion. 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 Oregon in the quarterfinals. They received an at-large bid in the 2011 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament as the #7 seeded team in the Southeast Region, where they defeated #10 seed Michigan State before falling to #2 seed Florida in the third round. They finished the season 23–11.

Schedule

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Rankings

See main article: 2010–11 NCAA Division I men's basketball rankings.

Honors

Malcolm Lee, Tyler Honeycutt, and Reeves Nelson were named to the All-Pac-10 first team. The three selection were the most of any team in the Pac-10 Conference. It's the first time the Bruins have had that many first-team selections since Toby Bailey, Jelani McCoy and Charles O'Bannon were picked in 1997.^[1]

Lee was also selected to the Pac-10 All-Defensive team, while Joshua Smith was named to the Pac-10 All-Freshmen team.^[1]

See also

• 2010–11 NCAA Division I men's basketball rankings
• List of UCLA Bruins in the NBA

Notes

• Tyus Edney 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, John Wooden's great-grandson scored the last two points of the last men's basketball game in Pauley Pavilion 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."^[2]
• 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 – Tyler Honeycutt announced that he will declare for the 2011 NBA draft and will hire an agent.^[3]
• April 1, 2011 - Assistant Coach Scott Duncan left the team to become the associate head coach at Wyoming.
• April 12, 2011 - Lee announced he would forgo his final year of college eligibility and hire an agent and enter the 2011 NBA draft.^[4]

Notes and References

1. News: Bolch . Ben . Holmes . Baxter . UCLA awaits word on condition of Malcolm Lee's left knee . March 7, 2011 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20201126010208/http://articles.latimes.com/print/2011/mar/07/sports/la-sp-pac-10-notes-20110308 . November 26, 2020 . live .
2. News: Painter . Jill . Trapani's shot leaves lasting image at Pauley Pavilion . . February 26, 2011 . https://archive.today/20240525064658/https://www.webcitation.org/5xJLlkeQu?url=http://m.dailynews.com/ladn/db_11049/contentdetail.htm;jsessionid=235728BEE34F9E0D590B3345C10F6FEE%3Fcontentguid=DD3L1E14&detailindex=8&pn=0&ps=10&full=true#display . 2024-05-25 . dead . 2011-03-19 .
3. News: Bolch . Ben . UCLA basketball: Tyler Honeycutt says he will hire an agent, enter NBA draft . March 28, 2011 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20110402073721/http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/sports_blog/2011/03/ucla-basketball-tyler-honeycutt-says-he-will-hire-an-agent-enter-nba-draft.html . April 2, 2011 . live .
4. News: Bolch . Ben . Malcolm Lee decides time is right to leave UCLA . April 13, 2011 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20110417021736/http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-ucla-malcolm-lee-20110413,0,6266117.story . 2011-04-17 . dead . 2011-04-14 .