Ucla Bruins

A unit on the Bruins in every priced home game of 2025-26 made 5.99, a return only eight Division I teams beat. UCLA lost once at home all season and covered 3 of 10 road spreads.

Home and road

UCLA went 17-1 at home. The one defeat was Indiana, 98-97 at -175. Two home wins came as underdogs and paid: Illinois 95-94 at +235 and Purdue 69-67 at +210. They covered 10 of 18 home spreads.

Away from home it was a different team: 4-6 straight up, 4 units lost over 10 priced games, and 3 covers in 10. Twenty teams in Division I fared worse on the road against the number. The road defeats included 86-56 at Michigan and 82-59 at Michigan State in back-to-back February games.

The season’s net

For all the home profit, a unit on UCLA in each of the 32 priced games finished 0.04 up, and the spread split 17-17. November cost 1.99 units, including an 80-72 loss to California at -360 at a neutral site. January was 5-4 with 3 covers in 9. As favorites the Bruins went 20-3 and made 1.69 units over 21 priced games; as underdogs they won 3 of 11 and lost 1.65, the home upsets of Illinois and Purdue doing most of the recovering.

March

The Bruins’ best month was the last: 4-1, 5 covers in 5 and 2.38 units. In the Big Ten tournament they beat Rutgers and then Michigan State 88-84 at +190, and lost 73-66 to Purdue while covering as 7.5-point underdogs. In the NCAA tournament they beat UCF 75-71 and lost 73-57 to UConn.

Opponents and the total

Oregon, USC and Rutgers lost twice each and UCLA covered all six. Washington also lost twice, neither covered. The total split 17 overs and 17 unders.

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