SEATTLE — The large man did it once more.
Three days after his breakout recreation, Aday Mara made positive UCLA didn’t falter with two big baskets within the last two minutes.
With Washington surging towards what seemed like an epic comeback, the 7-foot-3 middle collected a free ball alongside the baseline for a soar hook that put the Bruins forward by six factors.
Then, after Washington’s D.J. Davis buried a three-pointer to make it a three-point recreation, Mara made one other soar hook to place UCLA up by 5.
Huskies guard Zoom Diallo’s putback pulled his group to inside 60-57 with 41 seconds left, however UCLA’s Dylan Andrews countered with a step-back three-pointer with 17 seconds to go.
After UCLA guard Skyy Clark got here up with a steal and was fouled, a crowd that had been roaring inside Alaska Airways solely moments earlier streamed towards the exits with the Bruins on their strategy to a 65-60 victory Friday evening.
It was UCLA’s first highway triumph within the Huge Ten since early December towards Oregon, when Andrews hit the game-winning three-pointer.
Winners of three consecutive video games, the Bruins (14-6 total, 5-4 Huge Ten) are on a roll heading into the crosstown rivalry recreation Monday towards USC on the Galen Heart.
Mara completed with 12 factors, seven rebounds and 5 blocks in a career-high half-hour. Clark added 12 factors and UCLA ahead Kobe Johnson had 11 factors and 9 rebounds.
Ahead Nice Osobor scored 19 factors for Washington (10-10, 1-8), which has misplaced six straight video games.
A wonderful sequence by UCLA guard Sebastian Mack pushed the Bruins right into a 51-42 lead with 12:05 left. After making a three-pointer close to the tip of the shot clock, Mack took a cost and added one other three-pointer shortly thereafter.
Mack quickly got here up with a steal that Andrews adopted with a jumper to provide UCLA an 11-point benefit with 11:18 to go.
Washington wasn’t having almost as a lot luck from lengthy vary, lacking its first 10 three-pointers earlier than Tyree Ihenacho broke by almost 5 minutes into the second half.
Although he didn’t begin after his massive exhibiting towards Wisconsin, Mara was on the courtroom within the recreation’s early going after Tyler Bilodeau limped towards a coach’s desk with an obvious knee or leg harm.
Bilodeau briefly returned earlier than heading again to the bench, ceding his minutes to Mara. Mara made probably the most of them, making his first three photographs, grabbing 4 rebounds and blocking three photographs in 14 minutes earlier than halftime.
UCLA withstood a sloppy stretch to go on a 15-2 run late within the first half. The Bruins tightened their protection and Washington missed eight consecutive photographs. Ahead Eric Dailey Jr.’s driving layup within the last second gave the Bruins a 36-32 lead at halftime.
They’d not falter the remainder of the way in which.
