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With Horvat also hurt, and Onyenwere fouling out, I am surprised that UCLA has 5 players to put on the court.

Maybe I missed it, but I don't recall hearing much about UCLA having a short bench from the announcers.  I guess they were talking too much about someone's birthday.

Texas actually played fewer players (7 players played, and only 6 attempted a shot), so the "short bench" thing affected both teams.  UCLA has played the whole season shorthanded.

BC

So the game, at 41 fouls called, was possibly just 5 fouls short of playing 5 (incl. hurt Horvat who had just 2 minutes) on 4 (incl. Ortiz who had just 2 minutes) with no benches?  (2 players on UCLA had 4 fouls & 1 fouled out; 3 players on Texas had 4 fouls)

I admit to skipping forward during the game, but I didn't hear them making a big deal of the specter of playing short-handed. (I did hear one mention of the Australians(?) freshmen that couldn't get to the US).

[M T]

With Horvat also hurt, and Onyenwere fouling out, I am surprised that UCLA has 5 players to put on the court.

Maybe I missed it, but I don't recall hearing much about UCLA having a short bench from the announcers.  I guess they were talking too much about someone's birthday.

Texas actually played fewer players (7 players played, and only 6 attempted a shot), so the "short bench" thing affected both teams.  UCLA has played the whole season shorthanded.

BC

So the game, at 41 fouls called, was possibly just 5 fouls short of playing 5 (incl. hurt Horvat who had just 2 minutes) on 4 (incl. Ortiz who had just 2 minutes) with no benches?  (2 players on UCLA had 4 fouls & 1 fouled out; 3 players on Texas had 4 fouls)

I admit to skipping forward during the game, but I didn't hear them making a big deal of the specter of playing short-handed. (I did hear one mention of the Australians(?) freshmen that couldn't get to the US).