MEMPHIS TIGERS 78 - UCLA BRUINS 63
Bumpshack CO-MVP’s of the Game: Derrick Rose, Chris Douglas-Roberts and Joey Dorsey

Quick Stats: Chris Douglas Roberts 28 Points, Derrick Rose 25 Points 9 Rebounds, Joey Dorsey 0 Points 15 Rebounds

Memphis hit 20-23 free throws for 87%.

UCLA gets a quick bucket and foul Rose on the in-bounds. Memphis has hit 18-21 free throws so far tonight. Rose hits both. Mbaha Moute hits a basket but it doesn’t mean much as they are exchanging baskets at this point. CDR with two more. Dozier with a strong block on a Bruin drive. Anderson banks in a three as the shot clock was winding down. UCLA responds with a 3 of their own. MEMPHIS WINS 78 - 63. Love’s career is over.

Memphis is now in the double bonus. Derrick Rose hits both free throws to put Memphis up 13. This game is looking good for Tiger blue. Rose picks up his fourth foul on a reach in. Calipari has to leave Derrick in the game. Memphis is trying to use some clock and shorten the game. It’s going to come down to free throws. They used all the clock then found Dozier for a dunk. Memphis with a rebound and they are fouled. More free throws for Memphis. CDR hits two more free throws for a 15 point lead. Conditioning and the pace of the game has affected Rose and the entire UCLA team. UCLA finally scores again. Rose comes right back down, is fouled, and hits both free throws. Score Memphis 69 - UCLA 56, 1:25 remaining.

Bruins just got 7.5 seconds to throw the ball in. Memphis is getting the ball off the missed shot out of bounds. Love is tires and frustrated and looking for a Twinkie. Dorsey just got blocked by Love and hustled down the floor to slam a Bruins shot off the glass. Rose scores on a circus like miracle shot from under the goal. UCLA misses again. Memphis is up 11 points with 2:53 to go. Collison just fouled out with his fifth against Rose. Score Memphis 63 - UCLA 52, 2:53 remaining.

Shipp takes it to the rim off an offensive rebound and gets fouled while making the shot. Foul was called on Rose. Rose thought he picked up the charge. Shipp hit the free throw to bring it back down to 7. Memphis has hit a cold spell on offensive. Dorsey grabs another rebound giving him 12. Memphis needs an easy basket SOON. CDR takes it to the basket and is fouled by Shipp. It will be interesting to see if Memphis can hit their free ones down the stretch. CDR missed the front end of a one and one. OMG…..Chris Douglas-Roberts just had the all-time best dunk of the NCAA tournament on Kevin Love on a backscreen. WOW! Check that one out on replay. Score Memphis 61 - UCLA 52, 4:30 remaining

Rose with the strongest O-rebound I have seen in the tournament by any player. He grabbed it from 3 players and put up a reverse layup from behind the backboard. Anderson finally scores on a strong move to the rim. Back up to a 9-point lead. He has played strong D despite his offensive worries. Memphis has a second wind all of a sudden. Love is back on the bench. His conditioning has hurt the Bruins due to all of the breaks he has had to take due to the pace of this game. CDR hits another free throw. Rose finally took a bad shot. Plenty of time for UCLA to win this game. Fourth foul of the game called on Collison on a charging call. Score Memphis 59 - UCLA 49, 7:53 remaining.

Douglas Roberts with a nice baby hook over two Bruins. He now has 19 points. Another rebound by Rose. The Tigers offense is becoming more and more isolations for Rose and CDR. Anderson has been way off on ALL of his shots. Westbrook picks up his third foul on a drive by CDR. He hits both free throws…give him 21. Collison picks up his third foul as well on a quick baseline drive by D-Rose. Score Memphis 54 - UCLA 45, 12:12 remaining.

UCLA is on a nice run and truly the aggressor. Score Memphis 50 - UCLA 45, 13:32 remaining.

Westbrook now has 15 points off a nifty move. Memphis is getting choked by the refs as they did two years ago. It appears the NCAA had a good talk with them at half time. There is nothing more frustrating than referees calling a game one way one half and the exact opposite the next half. Just be consistent so the players can adjust. Score Memphis 50 - UCLA 41, 14: 22 remaining.

All the whistles are going against Memphis. Memphis can’t win this game with the zebras calling it like a 3rd grade girls game. Rose takes one the length of the court and is fouled. He is perhaps the fastest player with the ball in college basketball. Will he go #1 in the draft? Score Memphis 48 - UCLA 37, 16:37 remaining

Two free throws for Rose. A questionable charging foul against CDR and fouls against Dorsey and Taggert on very weak calls. Fast break basket for CDR. Three fouls on Dorsey and Taggert. Rose is starting to take over. Score Memphis 42 - UCLA 35, 18:45 remaining.

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Leading Scorers at the Half:
Memphis - Douglas-Roberts 13, Rose 11, Taggart 7, Anderson 5, Dozier 2
UCLA - Westbrook 11, Love 10, Shipp 6, Mbah a Moute 4, Keefe 2, Collison 2

Weight Lost - Love 7 lbs

Rocky finish to the first half for Memphis. There looked to be a couple of no-calls. Hard to believe Love plays that big and rough and doesn’t pick up fouls. The halftime score is Memphis 38 - UCLA 35.

Westbrook is playing the best for UCLA. He is quick and slippery. Rose is getting another break. Score Memphis 32 - UCLA 27, 3:57 remaining. Rose posts up Collison and draws a shooting foul on him with a nice up-and-under fake. Split the free throws. Love back in the game. Memphis is playing good D. Dorsey picks up his 2nd foul with 3:12 to go. He heads to the bench as Taggert comes him. Luc Richard Mbah a Moute hits the free throws. Douglas-Roberts responds with a three pointer. Big 350 lb Pierre Niles comes in to the game for Memphis. Big shot block for Kevin Love on a CDR shot. Score Memphis 36 - UCLA 29, 1:45 remaining

Love gets another break. Score Memphis 30 - UCLA 25, 5:20 remaining.

Great defensive block by CDR. UCLA has three turnovers in a row. Memphis flipped it over their last time as well. Monster dunk for Taggert on a Rose miss in transition.

This game is a bit too fast for K-Love. His conditioning is going to be tested in this one. Coach Ben Howland has already gave him a couple of breathers here in the first half hoping he will make it to the end of the game without having to get oxygen. Score 28-23, 7:25 remaining

The play has got a bit wild. A horrible 3 attempt by Antonio Anderson that bounced all the way back to him at half court. Derrick Rose makes a nice move and basket in transition.

Rose is back in the game thank goodness and hits a quick basket over Darren Collison. Taggert is providing some good help off the bench down low for Memphis. His defense so far tonight has been a lot stronger than most of the season. Coach John Calipari benched Taggert often throughout the season for his lackadaisical D. Westbrook is having a very nice game with 9 points so far. Score Memphis 24 - UCLA 23, 8:55 remaining.

Stupid foul on Joey Dorsey coming out of the timeout. Shawn Taggert hits a big 3 off the bench. Three pointer by Westbrook. Willie Kemp has come in to spell Rose. It will be interesting to see how Memphis does at the PG with backup Andre Allen suspended for the game. Westbrook has schooled him twice already. Robert Dozier and Dorsey both have one foul apiece. Timeout - score Memphis 22 - UCLA 21, 11:39 remining.

Wow! What a start! UCLA came out strong. A couple of early fouls on Russell Westbrook and Derrick Rose. Rose and Chris Douglas-Roberts are looking very sharp. Kevin Love looks a bit in shock at the length of Memphis so far. The score is 17-12 at the first timeout with 14:59 remaining in the first half.

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