No. 22 UCLA defeated No. 5 Arizona 84-75 in its season opener on Monday night in Las Vegas. Trent Perry led UCLA with 21 points. Arizona's Ivan Kharchenkov scored a career-high 38 points with 10 rebounds in the loss.
No. 22 UCLA defeated No. 5 Arizona 84-75 in the season opener on Monday night in Las Vegas. The game was played Nov. 2, 2026, at T-Mobile Arena as part of the Hall of Fame Series. A year earlier, Arizona beat defending champion Florida in the same arena to open the season.
UCLA's scoring and early run
Trent Perry led UCLA with 21 points and went 11 of 11 from the free-throw line, while shooting 33 percent from the field. Jaylen Petty and Eric Dailey Jr. each scored 13 points. UCLA grabbed one more rebound than Arizona and committed four fewer turnovers.
UCLA led 43-29 at halftime after a 14-point run that put it up 27-13. The run included a Sergej Macura 3-pointer on which he was fouled, completing a 4-point play.
Kharchenkov's big night for Arizona
Arizona's Ivan Kharchenkov scored a career-high 38 points and had 10 rebounds in the loss. He shot 60 percent from the field. Arizona cut the deficit to 1 point with just over three minutes left but could not complete what would have been the second-largest comeback of the Tommy Lloyd era.
