BY GEORGE DICKIE
From role player as a freshman to John Wooden Award
candidate as a senior, Jaime Jaquez Jr. has stepped up to
become a leader of his UCLA Bruins squad.
Indeed, the product of Camarillo (Calif.) High School
has transformed himself from low four-star recruit to one
of the nation's best players on a team with designs on a
national championship.
Through early January, Jaquez was averaging a career-
high 17.2 points per game to go with 6.3 rebounds,
2.3 assists and 1.7 steals. He's also greatly improved as
a shooter, connecting on 53.5 percent of his attempts,
up from his previous career-best of 48.6 percent in his
sophomore year of 2020-21. And he's taking fewer shots
from three-point range,
instead opting for shooting
efficiency from closer in.
With the Bruins ranked
in the top 10 in the nation
and leading the Pac-12
standings, Jaquez will be
integral to the Bruins' push
to make it to the other
side of March Madness.
He and UCLA can be seen
in action when they play
host to the conference rival
Washington Huskies in a
game airing Thursday, Feb.
2, on FS1.
Jaquez Jr. leading Bruins'
push to the Final Four
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