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LOS ANGELES — No. 1 UCLA (30-2) closes out the 2023 regular season at home this week with No. 3 USC at 12:00 p.m. PT and No. 5 Loyola Marymount at 4:00 p.m. PT. The Bruins will celebrate their seniors and graduate students after the dual with LMU. LMU and USC will square off at 2:00 p.m. PT. All three duals will be televised live on the Pac-12 Network with Anne Marie Anderson and Holly McPeak calling all of the exciting action. UCLA will also provide live scoring for all three courts for all three duals (go to the team’s schedule page for links or see below).
THIS WEEK’S SCHEDULE
Opponent: No. 3 USC (24-2) | WATCH | LIVE STATS
Location: Mapes Beach | Los Angeles, Calif.
Date: Thursday, Apr. 20, 2023
Time: 12:00 p.m. PT
Series History: USC leads 22-15
Streak: Won 1
Last Meeting: W 3-2 (Apr. 15, 2023 – Center of Effort Challenge – Swanson Beach Volleyball Complex – San Luis Obispo, Calif.)
Opponent: No. 5 LMU (23-6) | WATCH | LIVE STATS
Location: Mapes Beach | Los Angeles, Calif.
Date: Thursday, Apr. 20, 2023
Time: 4:00 p.m. PT
Series History: UCLA leads 16-4
Streak: Won 1
Last Meeting: W 4-1 (Apr. 20, 2022 at Mapes Beach – Los Angeles, Calif.)
THE OTHER DUAL THIS WEEK AT MAPES BEACH
Thursday, Apr. 20, 2023
2:00 PM: No. 3 USC vs. No. 5 LMU | WATCH | LIVE STATS
LAST WEEK ON THE SAND
Then No. 3 UCLA won all four of its duals at the Center of Effort Challenge at Cal Poly (Apr. 14-15). The Bruins opened with a 5-0 sweep of No. 19 Pepperdine and then defeated No. 1 TCU, 3-2, to end the first day of competition. Then UCLA opened day two with a 4-1 win over Cal Poly before completing the undefeated weekend with a 3-2 win over No. 2 USC to win the COEC title.
BIG WINS WEEKENDS
Last week the UCLA Bruins did something they had never done in the history of the program, beat the top two teams in the country in the same week. UCLA defeated previously unbeaten and then-top-ranked TCU (29-0) on Friday (Apr. 14) and No. 2 USC on Saturday (Apr. 15), snapping a six-match skid to the Trojans. Other notable weekends for the Bruins came when UCLA took down top-ranked USC twice on the same day (May 1, 2021) to win its second Pac-12 Championship in 2021 and when it won the 2019 NCAA Championship as a…
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