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Young UCLA goes back to basics (AP) (sports.yahoo.com)

Ben Howland has gone back to basics at UCLA. Losing Final Four veterans like Darren Collison, Josh Shipp and Alfred Aboya will force that on a coach. Howland is emphasizing fundamentals to a team dominated by freshmen and sophomores, a bunch that was picked to finish third in the Pac-10 and isn't in the preseason Top 25 for the first time in five years.