UCLA Basketball: Bruins and Tigers, a 2006 Defensive Redux?

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Bruins Nation: Front Page Posts found this 4/3/2008 on www.bruinbasketballreport.com [flag]
Bruin Basketball Report This Saturday UCLA plays Memphis for the first time since the West Regional Final in 2006 when the Bruins smothered the Tigers for a 50-45 win at the Oakland Coliseum to earn its first Final Four appearance since 1995. Similar to 2006, many people this year have questioned whether the Bruins match-up well against the Tigers on the court. In 2006, Memphis was ... [link]

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Ben Ball News & Notes
Published 4/3/2008 by Nestor <info@bruinsnation.com> at Bruins Nation: Front Page Posts
Let’s get right back to March Madness. KS Wong over at Bruin Basketball Report has a great post up on whether Saturday’s matchup against the Tigers will turn into a 2006 defensive redux. Wong looked back to the 2006 game and noted how in that game Coach Howland switched his pg – JF – over to guarding SG Antonio Anderson and put CB on then Memphis pg Darius Washington. The result was different from the matchup earlier that season when Washington ate up JF. So with that in mind here is a look into the matchups this season: ...

Saturday has arrived — Gameday Roundup
Published 4/5/2008 by Gilbert at Obscure Sports Quarterly
... The last time these two met was that epic 50-45 Elite Eight game in 2006. Both teams have changed significantly since then, but as Bruin Basketball Report points out, there are some similarities: ...

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Thirtyfive Seconds found this 4/3/2008 on sports.aol.com

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The Final Four brings plenty from the past and the present

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Now Presenting the 2008 Final Four Coaches…as South Park Characters

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