>> marques: good opportunity for tyler honeycutt. >> steve: trying to post up. dragovic. air ball. >> marques: dragovic keeps the bruins close, maintaining contact. down seven points. >> steve: ucla with the man defense. lee on collins. johnson misses and a good rebound for kansas and a putback. this is a career high, 12 points. >> mike: back at pauley pavilion number one kansas leading ucla, 52-43. michael eaves back with you. steve and marques were talking earlier. reeves nelson is a ben howland kind of player. we've seen it so far in this game. of his eight rebounds six have been offensive. being scrappy down low. battling cole aldrich, the morris twins. really being the defensive, pretty kind of player ben howland was when he was in high school and college. but on this play, coming up, being scrappy. being tough. he takes one to the eye. the ball goes in. they've been working on him in the time-out ever since. he does have a slight scratch just below his right eye but the real problem is and marques says this, his eye is really swelling up. they put some ice on it. tr

tyler honeycutt can do that. he's just a basketball player. >> steve: comes right back. t. honeycutt

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

tyler honeycutt now on the floor for ucla. a talented freshman and he's there for the tip-back but instead it misses, and mississippi state has the rebound to ravern johnson. >> marcus: a matchup for honeycutt, a lot of roughs in this game because of the amount of time that he has sat out with the leg injury, the back injury. his first action against kansas last weekend, so to have to stay on dee bost will be a tough chore for him jarvis. >> steve: stewart with the three-pointer off the dribble. >> marcus: and the deep three. that's one of the things that the coaching staff talked about, you've not only got to contest three-point shots but the deep three-pointers because they shoot it with such range and you're not really comfortable having to contest that far out jarvis. >> steve: honeycutt tried to drop it off low to morgan, but he had turned his back on the pass. >> marcus: you can see the basketball, the primary rule on offense, always see the ball. wow jarvis. >> steve: uh-oh. ravern is dropping the three and barry stewar

. >> steve: tyler honeycutt is in the game for the first time this year. the top recruit.man from los angeles, california. >> marques: when he gets that coveted number 23 jersey. >> steve: yep. >> marques: the guy with the most cool on the squad. >> steve: suffered a fourth turn over in collins. misses short. this is honeycutt. morgan rebounding. stoirp looks good. did a lot of work to improve his body in the off-season. >> steve: five turnovers now and three in the last four possessions. >> marques: kansas settles down. maybe some high/low. >> steve: shot clock down to 10. >> marques: a tough shot. nice job to knock it down. >> steve: the junior from burlington, kansas. >> marques: 0 for 6 in the first two games. since that time doing a great job. 53%. >> steve: six straight points by ucla. and that's another turnover. throws it down. 8-0 kansas run. bruins call a time-out. kansas celebrating. this is the big 12 pac-10 hardwood series. >> marques: i talked to bobby hurley his coach before the game. what is the one thing you take away after playing for bobby hurley? steve