The UCLA Bruins are the sports teams for University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The Bruin men's and women's teams participate in NCAA Division I-A as part of the Pacific Ten Conference and the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF).

The UCLA Bruins men's basketball program, established in 1920, owns a record 11 NCAA championships. UCLA teams coached by John Wooden won 10 titles in 12 seasons from 1964 to 1975, including 7 straight from 1967 to 1973. UCLA went undefeated a record 4 times, in 1964, 1967, 1972, and 1973. Coach Jim Harrick returned the program to the spotlight in 1995, leading the team to another NCAA title. Current coach Ben Howland is also focusing on restoring Bruin Basketball to national prominence, having led UCLA to their third consecutive final four appearance since 2006.

Several of the most revered championships were won by the Men's Basketball team under coaches John Wooden and Jim Harrick. The rich legacy of UCLA basketball has produced 11 NCAA championships - 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, and 1995. From 1971 to 1974, UCLA men's basketball won an unprecedented 88 consecutive games, a record that many sports pundits consider unbreakable. Past rosters of UCLA basketball teams have included greats such as Rafer Johnson who was the 1960 Olympic Decathlon Champion, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (then known as Lew Alcindor), Bill Walton, Reggie Miller and Walt Hazzard. The Bruins also had a winning record for 54 consecutive seasons from the 1948-1949 season to the 2001-2002 season.

In recent years, UCLA Men's Basketball has returned to prominence under Coach Ben Howland. Between 2005 and 2007, UCLA has been to three consecutive Final Fours, while UCLA's players have received numerous awards, most notably Arron Afflalo, a 2007 First-Team All American, and Kevin Love, the 2008 Pac-10 Player of the Year.
UCLA men's basketball has set several NCAA records.

    * 11 NCAA titles
    * 7 consecutive NCAA titles (1967-1973)
    * 13 NCAA title game appearances
    * 18 Final Four appearances*
    * 10 consecutive Final Four appearances (1967-1976)
    * 26 Final Four wins*
    * 38 game NCAA Tournament winning streak (1964-1974)
    * 134 weeks ranked #1 in AP Top 25 Poll
    * 221 consecutive weeks ranked in AP Top 25 Poll (1966-1980)
    * 54 consecutive winning seasons (1949-2002)
    * 88 game regular season winning streak (1971-1974)

UCLA finished as the #1 overall Collegiate Athletic Program of the 20th Century and is #1 in the 2000's in overall NCAA titles won. UCLA enters the 2008-09 academic year with 103 NCAA team championships, more than any other school in the country. All 103 championships have been won since 1950. No school can match UCLA's variety of successful teams. Since 1998, UCLA has been the nation's most popular university to attend, with over 50,000 applications for admission currently. More students apply here than any other college for UCLA's 5,000 admission spots per school year. The average student applying has over a 4.0 gpa and combined SAT over 2000. In the U.S. News & World Report surveys on top academic universities across the nation, UCLA is among the Top 4 public universities and top 25 overall. UCLA has five times as many individual academic departments ranked in the Top 10 as its cross-town rival USC. In fact, UCLA had over 60 more departments ranked in the Top 20 in the annual academic survey. Several UCLA academic departments rank with the Ivy Leagues in overall recognition and prestige. Newsweek has called UCLA "the hottest mega-university in the country."The Bruin men's basketball team has won a record 11 NCAA titles, more than any other university. The Bruins have appeared in more championship games than any other school. UCLA won the 1978 Women's Basketball National Collegiate Championship, the first major university to ever do so in front of a record crowd of 9,351 that stood for 8 years.UCLA had the longest streak in NCAA history for consecutive winning seasons in the sport of men's basketball, a record that lasted over 50 years in length dating back to 1948-49 and extending through 2002. No other major program was/is close to that figure.