Las Vegas • UCLA broke out new uniforms that looked like pajamas and played like they were barely awake well into the second half.
Freshman Shabazz Muhammad snapped the Bruins out of it, saving them from an inglorious exit from the Pac-12 Tournament.
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Pac-12 Tournament
Thursday’s quarterfinals
» UCLA 80, Arizona State 75
» Arizona 79, Colorado 69
» Utah 79, California 69 (OT)
» Oregon 80, Washington 77 (OT)
Friday’s semifinals
» UCLA vs. Arizona, 7 p.m., Pac-12 Network
» Utah vs. Oregon, 9:30 p.m., ESPN
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Muhammad scored 12 of his 16 points in the second half, Travis Wear hit a jumper with 11 seconds left and No. 21 UCLA rallied from a 15-point deficit to beat Arizona State 80-75 in the quarterfinals of the Pac-12 Tournament on Thursday.
"These guys never quit. They never gave up," UCLA coach Ben Howland said. "They never stopped believing in themselves and each other and really found a way to battle back. "
Wearing uniforms with sleeves and matching camouflage-patterned shorts, the Bruins (24-8) got off to a groggy start and appeared to be in danger of becoming the second straight top seed to lose its first game in the Pac-12 Tournament.
Muhammad gave UCLA the spark it needed with a highlight-reel dunk over Arizona State center Jordan Bachynski and scored 10 points during a 17-4 second-half run that got the Bruins back in it.
No. 18 Arizona 79, Colorado 69 • At Las Vegas, Nick Johnson scored 18 points and hit a contested shot with 34 seconds left, helping Arizona beat Colorado in the quarterfinals.
Arizona (25-6) led by 14 in the second half, but had trouble shaking the desperate Buffaloes (21-11).
Johnson hit his shot between three defenders to put the Wildcats up four and followed teammate Mark Lyons’ two free throws by swatting Askia Booker’s 3-point attempt into Colorado’s bench.
Lyons had 14 points and Solomon Hill 13 for Arizona, which moves on to face UCLA in Friday’s semifinals.
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