DANIEL WONG/Daily Bruin Senior Staff If the Bruins are going to defeat the conference-leading Wildcats, they must contain Arizona guard Jason Gardner. By Greg Schain Daily Bruin Reporter Arizona’s basketball team has very good team chemistry, thanks to junior guard Jason Gardner. Read more...

  DANIEL WONG/ Daily Bruin Senior Staff Junior point guard Natalie Nakase will lead the women’s basketball team against Pac-10 rival Arizona tonight. By Bruce Tran Daily Bruin Contributor While Arizona is ranked seventh in the Pac-10 and UCLA is ranked eighth in the conference, no two teams could be farther apart. Read more...

  BRIDGET O’BRIEN/Daily Bruin Senior Staff Ski and snowboard team president Kristin Cusic leads her heat around the first gate of the boardercross course at Mammoth Mountain easily. Read more...

By David Sway Daily Bruin Contributor The UCLA women’s golf team placed eighth in its winter opener in Palos Verdes, Calif. The Bruins were competing in a tough field, including 15 of the nation’s top 25 teams at the seventh annual TRW Regional Challenge. Read more...

  Gilbert Quinonez The stat geek dreams of having his own computer rankings used by the BCS and spends his Friday and Saturday nights analyzing the world of sports stats. Read more...

Incoming Bruins UCLA signed four players from California to letters of intent on Wednesday. Jill Oaks (West Hills/Harvard-Westlake HS), Stacy Lindstrom (Laguna Niguel/Aliso Niguel HS), Allie True (Alamo/Monte Vista HS) and Katie Rivera (Mission Viejo/Santa Margarita Catholic HS) will be able to compete as Bruins in 2002. Read more...

  ASUCLA By 1975, UCLA had a women’s basketball team which shared the Pauley Pavilion main court with the men’s team. By Bruce Tran Daily Bruin Contributor From its humble beginnings in 1892 to the WNBA’s “We’ve Got Next” campaign, from bloomers to sports bras, from Senda Berenson to Pat Summitt, women’s basketball has come a long way. Read more...