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UCLA's Kevin Love, No. 42, celebrates with Russell Westbrook after scoring against Washington State during the Bruins 81-74 victory over the Cougars.

The Bruins answered again. Collison drove around Daven Harmeling and scored before falling into the basket support. He got up and made both free throws for a 61-49 lead.

UCLA dominated from the opening tip, running up a 26-8 lead, including eight in a row, before the shaky Cougars knew what hit them. Love had eight points, Shipp hit two 3-pointers and Westbrook scored six points and made some pinpoint passes in the spurt.

“How could you not be fired up for this game?” Shipp said. “Four and five, they’re undefeated. If that isn’t motivation, I don’t know what is.”

Both teams played man-to-man, but the Bruins were quicker and doubled in the post against Aussie big man Aron Baynes and his backup Harmeling. Baynes finished with eight points and seven rebounds.

“He looks like he’s about to be in the Outdoors Games and chop down a tree,” Love said about his 6-foot-10, 270-pound rival. “I had to box him out as much as I could.”

Love single-handedly outrebounded the Cougars in the first half, grabbing eight to their seven.

Washington State starter Robbie Cowgill was scoreless in the half and finished with two.

The Cougars were 0-of-7 and had five turnovers before Rochestie got their first field goal at 11:24, leaving them trailing 16-6. Baynes went 4-of-6 from the line for their early points.

“We got to come out ready in an atmosphere like this,” Low said. “You can’t come out and be shocked by their defensive pressure. We were on our heels because they were so into us.”

Washington State settled down after UCLA’s opening run, outscoring the Bruins 14-9 to end the half trailing 35-22. Rochestie gave the Cougars a lift going into the locker room with a 3-pointer that barely beat the halftime buzzer.

Former UCLA stars Reggie Miller, Michael Warren and Sidney Wicks attended the game, but 97-year-old former coach John Wooden had a scheduled appearance that kept him away.

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