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The 30 Greatest UCLA Basketball Players of All Time

By YPB Team

Eleven national championships are represented here, along with stars who carried the Bruins through the leaner decades in between. Dynasty-era centers sit next to one-season stars who barely stayed a winter in Westwood.

  1. Bill Walton — ranked #11
    Bill Walton
    Center on the 1972 and 1973 national champions who scored 44 points on 21-of-22 shooting in the 1973 title game against Memphis State.
    1000pts
  2. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar — ranked #22
    Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
    Center who, playing as Lew Alcindor, led UCLA to three straight NCAA titles from 1967 to 1969 and was named Most Outstanding Player of all three Final Fours.
    702pts
  3. Arron Afflalo — ranked #33
    Arron Afflalo
    Guard on the 2006 and 2007 Final Four teams who was named Pac-10 Player of the Year in 2007.
    625pts
  4. Darren Collison — ranked #44
    Darren Collison
    Point guard from 2005 to 2009 who played in three straight Final Fours from 2006 to 2008.
    625pts
  5. Jaylen Clark — ranked #55
    Jaylen Clark
    Guard who won the 2023 Naismith Defensive Player of the Year award.
    574pts
  6. Curtis Rowe — ranked #66
    Curtis Rowe
    Forward who started on three straight national champions from 1969 to 1971.
    574pts
  7. Ed O'Bannon — ranked #77
    Ed O'Bannon
    Forward who won the 1995 Wooden Award and was Most Outstanding Player of the Final Four as UCLA won that year's NCAA title.
    515pts
  8. Jordan Farmar — ranked #88
    Jordan Farmar
    Point guard who led UCLA to the 2006 NCAA championship game in his sophomore season.
    515pts
  9. Reggie Miller — ranked #99
    Reggie Miller
    Shooting guard from 1983 to 1987 who scored more than 2,000 career points and helped UCLA win the 1985 NIT.
    515pts
  10. Walt Hazzard — ranked #1010
    Walt Hazzard
    Point guard named Most Outstanding Player of the 1964 Final Four as UCLA went 30-0 and won its first NCAA title.
    446pts
  11. Jaime Jaquez Jr. — ranked #1111
    Jaime Jaquez Jr.
    Forward on the 2021 Final Four team who was named Pac-12 Player of the Year in 2023.
    446pts
  12. Kevin Love — ranked #1212
    Kevin Love
    Center whose 2007-08 freshman season brought Pac-10 Player of the Year, consensus first-team All-American honors and a Final Four trip.
    446pts
  13. Jason Kapono — ranked #1313
    Jason Kapono
    Forward who started four seasons from 1999 to 2003 and ranks among UCLA's career leaders in points and 3-pointers.
    446pts
  14. Johnny Juzang — ranked #1414
    Johnny Juzang
    Guard who led UCLA's 2021 run from the First Four to the Final Four as the team's top scorer.
    446pts
  15. 15
    Don MacLean
    Forward from 1988 to 1992 who finished as UCLA's career scoring leader with 2,608 points.
    446pts
  16. Gail Goodrich — ranked #1616
    Gail Goodrich
    Guard on the 1964 and 1965 national champions who scored 42 points in the 1965 NCAA final against Michigan.
    365pts
  17. Charles O'Bannon — ranked #1717
    Charles O'Bannon
    Forward who started alongside his brother Ed on the 1995 national championship team.
    365pts
  18. Dave Meyers — ranked #1818
    Dave Meyers
    Senior forward on the 1975 national champions who was a consensus All-American that season.
    365pts
  19. Kyle Anderson — ranked #1919
    Kyle Anderson
    Point forward who earned first-team All-Pac-12 honors in 2014 and helped UCLA win that year's Pac-12 Tournament.
    365pts
  20. 20
    Richard Washington
    Center named Most Outstanding Player of the 1975 Final Four in John Wooden's last season.
    365pts
  21. Sidney Wicks — ranked #2121
    Sidney Wicks
    Forward on three straight national champions from 1969 to 1971 and Most Outstanding Player of the 1970 Final Four.
    268pts
  22. Jamaal Wilkes — ranked #2222
    Jamaal Wilkes
    Forward, then known as Keith Wilkes, who won NCAA titles in 1972 and 1973 and earned All-American honors.
    268pts
  23. Lonzo Ball — ranked #2323
    Lonzo Ball
    Point guard whose lone 2016-17 season brought consensus first-team All-American honors and the national lead in assists.
    268pts
  24. Tyus Edney — ranked #2424
    Tyus Edney
    Point guard whose full-court drive and layup with 4.8 seconds left beat Missouri on the way to the 1995 NCAA title.
    268pts
  25. Henry Bibby — ranked #2525
    Henry Bibby
    Guard who won three straight NCAA titles with UCLA from 1970 to 1972.
    268pts
  26. Russell Westbrook — ranked #2626
    Russell Westbrook
    Guard on the 2007 and 2008 Final Four teams who was named Pac-10 Defensive Player of the Year in 2008.
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  27. Kiki Vandeweghe — ranked #2727
    Kiki Vandeweghe
    Senior forward who led the 1979-80 Bruins in scoring and to the NCAA championship game against Louisville.
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  28. David Greenwood — ranked #2828
    David Greenwood
    Forward from 1975 to 1979 who was a two-time All-American and the 1979 Pac-10 Player of the Year.
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  29. Don Barksdale — ranked #2929
    Don Barksdale
    Forward who in 1947 became the first African American named a consensus All-American in college basketball.
    0pts
  30. 30
    Marques Johnson
    Forward on the 1975 national champions who in 1977 became the first winner of the John R. Wooden Award.
    0pts

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