A UCLA win here would be nice, no doubt, but what stands in the way could make this task next to impossible. The Bruins are coming off a devastating loss to Oh

Three Bruins ballplayers were named preseason All-Americans by D1 Baseball. Junior shortstop Roch Cholokowsky was named to the All-American first team while both junior first baseman Mulivai Levu and junior third baseman Roman Martin were named to the Third-Team.

The No. 4 Purdue Boilermakers and the UCLA Bruins meet Tuesday in Los Angeles, California, with tip-off scheduled for 10 p.m. ET.

Entering this matchup UCLA is officially in desperation following it's loss to Ohio State. This season has not gone the way that many fans suspected it would go

The Bruins will have primarily new faces competing for starting positions in 2026, but they do return arguably their most consistent lineman in left guard Eugene

Purdue was named Helms Foundation national champions, seven years before the first NCAA tournament, and Wooden was the Helms Player of the Year. "We try to keep that lineage with Purdue alive because I think that gets lost a little bit that he was such a great player," Purdue coach Matt Painter said.

The Best of the West offers fans a candid assessment of the top teams in the western third of the country — a collection that includes the Mountain West and the former Pac-12 schools now scattered across the ACC,

UCLA faces plenty of pressure as it begins the 2026 college baseball season as the No. 1-ranked program in the country, but for one player, there may be much mo