UCLA's basketball team was a 12-point favorite over Michigan in Madison Square Garden and I thought that was a lock bet if you were putting money on the Wolverines.
And Michigan, in fact, just beat the Bruins, 55-52, keeping Ben Howland's team from playing Duke in Friday night.
Darren Collison was fouled on a last-second attempt on a 3 that would have tied the score but it wasn't called. The Bruins can't complain, though. Remember they got a comparable no-call in the second-round NCAA win over Texas A&M last March in Anaheim.
The Bruins' inside game, offensively, has gotten a big rap and it wasn't effective again tonight. But UCLA's perimeter game, especially that provided by seniors Collison and Josh Shipp, wasn't much, either.
As I suggested in my Thursday Press-Telegram column, the Bruins are an overrated rate team right now and that point was just proven out.
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