INGLEWOOD — It’s not early March in Las Vegas, but it was No. 15 UCLA and No. 5 Arizona all the same. A slugfest between old-school Pac-12 powerhouses, a flat-out bloodbath, as Bruins head coach Mick Cronin predicted on Thursday.

While the Bruins and Wildcats have relocated to separate conferences, they have continued to schedule one another every year, and that showed as they seemed to know each other’s every move on Friday night.

Passes were anticipated before they were thrown. Defenders beat drivers to the spot, effectively protecting the rim. The officials added to the narrative, holding their whistle apart from blatant combat.

UCLA guard Skyy Clark kept Arizona counterpart Jayden Bradley quiet for the first 35 minutes of Friday’s game, but he erupted for 13 points in the last five

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