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UCLA Basketball: Bruins Beat Buffs, Extend Winning Streak

After blowing a 14-point lead!

Maren Angus-Coombs

UCLA Basketball: Bruins Beat Buffs, Extend Winning Streak
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Your UCLA Bruins seem determined to make the NCAA Tournament and are inching closer with every win.

UCLA beat Colorado 64-60 on Thursday night to extend its season-best winning streak to six games. With the victory, the Bruins improve to a 14-11 record on the year, having now won seven of their last eight games.

Lazar Stefanovic scored his only six points of the game when the Bruins needed them most. All of them came in the last three-and-a-half minutes and the final one was a free throw with two seconds left.

From the tip, UCLA's defense forced Colorado to make mistakes resulting in turnovers. The Buffaloes turned the ball over nine times in the first half and the Bruins scored 15 points off them and led 38-29 at halftime.

By the end of the game, the Buffs turned the ball over 14 times and the Bruins turned them into 19 points.

The Buffs made things interesting in the second half when they came back from 14 down but the Bruins prevailed.

Adem Bona, Sebastian Mack, and Dylan Andrews all reached double digits. Mack led all scorers with 19 while Bona had 14 and Andrews had 13.

Bona played like a man on a mission. He was blocking shots on one end and finishing the play with a slam on the other. 

Andrews finished the first half with a kiss off the glass just before the buzzer.

Stefanovic knocked down a three-ball with three minutes left to give him five points in 30 seconds.

The Bruins return to Pauley Pavilion and host Utah on Sunday at 4 p.m. PST.

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Maren Angus-Coombs
MAREN ANGUS-COOMBS

Maren Angus-Coombs was born in Los Angeles and raised in Nashville, Tenn. She is a graduate of Middle Tennessee State University and has been a sports writer since 2008. Despite being raised in the South, her sports obsession has always been in Los Angeles. She is currently a staff writer for the LA Sports Report Network.