{"id":1163922,"date":"2026-02-23T09:43:38","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T14:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/?p=1163922"},"modified":"2026-02-23T09:43:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T14:43:38","slug":"ucla-hosts-usc-following-daileys-20-point-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/ucla-hosts-usc-following-daileys-20-point-game\/","title":{"rendered":"UCLA hosts USC following Dailey&#039;s 20-point game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>USC Trojans (18-9, 7-9 Big Ten) at UCLA Bruins (18-9, 10-6 Big Ten)<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles; Tuesday, 11 p.m. EST<\/p>\n<p>BOTTOM LINE: UCLA faces USC after Eric Dailey Jr. scored 20 points in UCLA&#8217;s 95-94 overtime victory against the Illinois Fighting Illini.<\/p>\n<p>The Bruins have gone 15-1 at home. UCLA averages 77.9 points while outscoring opponents by 6.1 points per game.<\/p>\n<p>The Trojans are 7-9 in Big Ten play. USC ranks sixth in the Big Ten with 33.6 rebounds per game led by Jacob Cofie averaging 7.1.<\/p>\n<p>UCLA averages 77.9 points per game, 1.3 more points than the 76.6 USC allows. USC has shot at a 46.2% clip from the field this season, 2.8 percentage points above the 43.4% shooting opponents of UCLA have averaged.<\/p>\n<p>The Bruins and Trojans face off Tuesday for the first time in Big Ten play this season.<\/p>\n<p>TOP PERFORMERS: Tyler Bilodeau is averaging 18.1 points and 5.5 rebounds for the Bruins. Trent Perry is averaging 1.8 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>Cofie is averaging 10 points, 7.1 rebounds and 1.7 blocks for the Trojans. Chad Baker-Mazara is averaging 1.7 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>LAST 10 GAMES: Bruins: 6-4, averaging 76.9 points, 28.8 rebounds, 14.9 assists, 5.2 steals and 2.9 blocks per game while shooting 44.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 77.3 points per game.<\/p>\n<p>Trojans: 4-6, averaging 73.0 points, 33.3 rebounds, 13.0 assists, 6.6 steals and 4.9 blocks per game while shooting 43.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 77.3 points.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dataskrive.com\/\">Data Skrive<\/a> and data from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportradar.com\/\">Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/ucla-hosts-usc-following-daileys-094338699.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/ucla-hosts-usc-following-daileys-094338699.html<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USC Trojans (18-9, 7-9 Big Ten) at UCLA Bruins (18-9, 10-6 Big Ten) Los Angeles; Tuesday, 11 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: UCLA faces USC after&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1163922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1163922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1163922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1163922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1163922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}