honeycuttk into the fray. he came]&h'o in, played four o minutes, didn't do much now. give him a chance to rest up and regroup. get him back in there to see if he has the experience for the second time around. >> steve: collins picked up, great block by aldrich. out to taylor. >> steve: career high of 11 and already has eight. >> marques: he is the bigger are of the twins. 6'9". i asked markieff and he said he did -- they didn't play jump,p shot only. theg ucla bruins. michael eaves on the sidelines. a nine-point deficit. michael roll coming back in for the bruins. it'll be honeycutt, nelson on the front line with anderson. roll in the back door. >> marques: michael roll has shown it compared to last year. he can't worry about that. >> steve: markieff is killing them down low, shooting 73% from the floor this year and he is 5 for 5 today. >> marques: yeah. just great foot work. that's the impact and influence of danny manning, the big man coach, one of the best there ever was, collegiate playe

honeycutt gets it back. misses. lee will pick it up. ucla has been recruiting one of the top point guards in america out of high school, ray mccollum in michigan and out of the junior college ranks, zeke jones out of missouri junior college. cole does everything. >> marques: he does. even though it's not a big offensive day for him, again, he doesn't mind as long as they win the basketball game. great defense. great hustle on the block of the attempted dunk by reeves nelson. he gets on the floor like ucla stars do and then nice job on the inside. great position leading to the easy bucket. >> steve: kansas, one of many unbeaten teams. but they are on the top because of the two guys, collins and aldrich returned but the first five are all unbeaten. >> marques: purdue, their custom tough defense. kentucky has my favorite player in the country in john wahle running the point guard position for them as they beat north carolina by two yesterday. >> steve: duke has that one loss this year. >> marques: wisconsin. >> steve: yeah. yesterday kyle

rebound tyler honeycutt. >> marcus: you know, that possession right there, honeycutt is bringing the basketball and trying to create something on his own and what's going to make him a special ballplayer for ucla once he gets his timing and his conditioning in order jarvis. >> steve: next saturday, east meets west in a powerful s.e.c. pac-10 doubleheader. first the women hit the court as two teams with national title dreams around then the men take center court when number 9 tennessee looks to shut down c usc. the action tips off at 2:30 eastern and 11:30 pacific. at the free-throw line reeves nelson, a bundle of energy. i think he has a terrific future because he brings the attack. he bring he brings the high energy and emotion that ben howland likes so much. >> marcus: he's not going to be 20 points, 9, 10, 11 rebounds, can average 7 or 8 rebounds easily but-for-this team to be successful they have to get some offense generated through some of these recruits, smith, josh lamb jarvis. >> steve: well, can you imagine what they might have next year with smith at the post and nelson at

there's honeycutt high for the rebound. >> marques: the first week of practice honeycutt, 45 minutescall. a turnover on the block. >> marques: when you play aggressive defense, the agresors usually get the calls like that. >> steve: honeycutt. behind his back. then throws it away. makes a great play then a bad one. >> marques: again, that's evident here, the rust on honeycutt's game right now. given time, he is a terrific player, great basketball iq. and he's got an

here is honeycutt. nelson has it swatted away and we've got varnado with his second and make it three, and -- and you've got to get him to foul you somehow. >> marcus: jarvis varnado, the pogo stick. second jump, outstanding jarvis. >> steve: we come to you from the honda center in anaheim, california. this is the 16th annual wooden classic. >> marcus: tyler honeycutt did a good job to have the courage, first of all, to put up a shot on the interior with the 7 foot wingspan jarvis. >> steve: and the steal by nelson. blocked by mississippi state. >> marcus: a nice job recovering defensively jarvis. >> steve: barry stewart misses the three and roll with the rebound. >> marcus: you saw four white-shirted bruins on the interior. that's what's going to take for them to win the battle on the interior and get the defensive rebound jarvis. >> steve: a traveling call against the bruins and that is the fourth turnover in the first half and they suffered 11 in the first 13 minutes in their loss to kansas last week