69 Points: No. 9 UCLA Forces 30 Turnovers and Routs Arkansas-Pine Bluff 106-37

Photo: UCLA Athletics. Nikola Kusturica, official roster headshot. Card design: The Dyme.

No. 9 UCLA beat Arkansas-Pine Bluff 106-37 on Wednesday at Pauley Pavilion, a 69-point margin, per the ESPN box score. Jon Rothstein reported that it is the largest margin of victory in UCLA program history. More than half of that margin came off turnovers: UCLA outscored the Golden Lions 45-8 in points off turnovers, a 37-point gap, by our count from the ESPN box. Arkansas-Pine Bluff scored eight off UCLA's 13 turnovers. The Bruins moved to 3-0. The Golden Lions fell to 0-3. Attendance was 3,312, and the game streamed on Peacock.

Nikola Kusturica led UCLA with 17 points on 7-of-9 shooting in 22 minutes. Jaylen Petty scored 16 with three threes. Azavier Robinson scored 15 off the bench with five assists. Eric Dailey Jr. had 13 points, six rebounds and four steals. Trent Perry scored 11 on 3-of-4 shooting and handed out 11 assists with two turnovers.

30 turnovers, 19 steals

Arkansas-Pine Bluff committed 30 turnovers, per ESPN, and UCLA had 19 steals. Eight Bruins recorded at least one steal, by our count from the ESPN player box. The turnover gap was 17, and the points-off-turnovers gap was 37 (45-8), by our count. UCLA also won fast-break points 22-1 and paint points 46-24.

The Golden Lions took 51 shots and made 14 (27%). They made two of 20 threes. UCLA shot 40-of-68 (59%) and 13-of-28 from three. Twenty-nine of UCLA's 40 baskets were assisted, per ESPN.

51-9 at halftime

UCLA scored the first 13 points, by our count from the ESPN play-by-play. Jalen Tatum's free throw at 14:32 of the first half was Arkansas-Pine Bluff's first point. The Golden Lions scored nine points in the first half: three field goals and three free throws, by our count. UCLA led 51-9 at the break. Rothstein noted at halftime that nine points tied the fewest UCLA had allowed in a half since the 1975-76 season.

The second half went 55-28. Markell Alston's three at 2:14 made it 101-31, the 70-point lead ESPN lists as UCLA's largest. Javonte Floyd's layup with 29 seconds left set the 106-37 final. Arkansas-Pine Bluff never led.

Eleven of the 12 UCLA players who appeared scored, by our count from the ESPN player box.

Arkansas-Pine Bluff's side

Macaleab Rich led the Golden Lions with 11 points on 5-of-14 shooting. Jalen Tatum scored eight with four steals and seven turnovers. Harrison Pickett had three assists, three steals and six turnovers.

The box score, side by side

Full-game team numbers, per the ESPN box and checked against the CBS Sports gametracker box:

Category	UCLA	Arkansas-Pine Bluff
Field goals	40-68 (59%)	14-51 (27%)
3-pointers	13-28 (46%)	2-20 (10%)
Free throws	13-20 (65%)	7-11 (64%)
Rebounds	38	22
Assists	29	9
Turnovers	13	30
Steals	19	10
Blocks	4	1
Points in the paint	46	24
Points off turnovers	45	8
Fast-break points	22	1
Largest lead	70	0

Half scoring, per the ESPN linescores:

Half	UCLA	Arkansas-Pine Bluff
1	51	9
2	55	28
Final	106	37

UCLA held the No. 9 spot in the Associated Press men's Top 25, per the NCAA.com AP poll and ESPN's game ranking. Arkansas-Pine Bluff was unranked.

Next on the schedule

UCLA hosts Long Beach State at Pauley Pavilion on Monday, Nov. 16, per the ESPN team schedule.

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Sources:

• ESPN: Arkansas-Pine Bluff vs. UCLA box score
• ESPN: Arkansas-Pine Bluff vs. UCLA play-by-play
• CBS Sports: Arkansas-Pine Bluff at UCLA gametracker box score
• NCAA.com: AP Top 25 men's basketball poll
• Jon Rothstein on X: program-record margin
• Jon Rothstein on X: halftime note
• UCLA Athletics: men's basketball schedule