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No. 19 UCLA Races Past Denver, 87-64

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LOS ANGELES – Jaylen Clark scored a team-leading 24 points to lead the No. 19 UCLA men’s basketball team past Denver, 87-64, in a non-conference contest on Saturday afternoon in Pauley Pavilion presented by Wescom.

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UCLA (8-2) led nearly the entire way, securing a 44-35 advantage against Denver (8-3) at halftime.

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The Bruins used a 17-0 scoring run to open the second half, over a span of nearly six minutes, to lead by a 61-35 advantage with 14:05 to play in regulation.

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“We took a lot of good shots that didn’t go in in the first half,” said Mick Cronin, The Michael Price Family UCLA Men’s Head Basketball Coach. “You can’t control that. You can control your attitude, your effort and your energy. You’ve got to be mature enough to know you’re not going to make shots all the time. Let’s go rebound the ball.”

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Jaime Jaquez Jr. finished with 18 points, connecting on 9 of 11 shots. Clark was 10-for-13 from the field and made 2 of 4 attempts from 3-point distance. Dylan Andrews rounded out UCLA’s list of double figure scorers on Saturday, scoring a season-high 11 points. Andrews also had six assists and no turnovers.

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Denver’s Touko Tainamo scored a team-leading 16 points for the visiting Pioneers.

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The Bruins finished the game having made 38 of 79 shots, logging a percentage of 48% from the field. Denver shot 50 percent against the Bruins, making 23 of 46 total shots (and five…

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