Published on Friday, February 05, 2010
By LA Daily News Staff Writer
All season long, UCLA men's basketball coach Ben Howland has fended off questions about the Pac-10 tournament, about the conference standings, about the future.
Coach-speak be damned, he has stuck his chest out, his chin up and repeated, time in and time out, that his Bruins were still in this thing.
Reporters scoffed, fans shrugged, even the players at times didn't seem to believe.
Now they do.
With Thursday's 77-73 win over Stanford and losses by Arizona and Cal, UCLA is tied with four teams for first place in the Pac-10 standings at 6-4.
A late-season push with four road games - at Washington/ Washington State and at Arizona/Arizona State - could leave the Bruins in prime position come Pac-10 Tournament time.
Who would have thought?
Well, UCLA, for one, which is not caught by surprised by the recent ascension.
"Not really, because we as a conference have underperformed," junior guard Mustafa Abdul-Hamid said. "There's some great players in the Pac-10
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