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| Tuesday, January 25 Updated: February 1, 4:00 PM ET Pac-10 road warriors |
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(Editor's note: UCLA's Maylana Martin, a senior forward, will share a weekly diary with ESPN.com throughout the season. For more information on the Bruins, visit UCLA's official athletic site.) Jan. 25, 2000 We just returned home from Arizona and sweeping both the Arizona schools (UCLA beat Arizona 79-68 and ASU 76-55). This was a huge, huge weekend for us.
Arizona always has a good team and it's always hard to win there. In fact, I think we are the first UCLA team to win there back-to-back, so that's a nice way to end my career at the McKale Center. Arizona State is better this season than it has been in the past. In the first half the Sun Devils stayed with us. We had a good run to start the game but they came back and cut it to two by halftime. But in the second half we came out and crashed the boards a little harder and became more intense and came out of there with a 21-point win, so that was good. Like I said, these two games were huge for us and it was good to get a sweep on our first Pac-10 road trip. We're kind of introducing the freshmen to the Pac-10 in terms of playing on the road. It's a little bit different than playing non-conference games on the road.
We play two games in one weekend. You have to prepare for both teams and it's a lot to handle your freshman year, so I'm glad that we could bring Nicole (Kazcmarski), Jalena (Bradley) and Natalie (Jarrett) in on a good weekend and play well. We have Oregon State (on Thursday) and Oregon (on Saturday) coming up next. Again, it's going to be a really big weekend for us and very tough because both schools are coming off sweeps. Oregon State is a little bit better than it has been in the past. The Beavers still have their big kids inside with Sissel Pierce and the Wiersma twins, who are playing real well right now. They run a lot of zone, which we've faced in the past. Hopefully, after facing a lot of zones this season, and after playing Louisiana Tech and Tennessee, we'll be able to get them out of their zone and force them to play us man-to-man.
Time for redemption I've been watching our game last year at Oregon over and over this week, and I'm very disgusted with our effort and the way we played. I just hope we can go out and take care of some unfinished business from last year. Oregon has the Freshman of the Year from last season, Shaquala Williams. Jenny Mowe and Angelina Wolvert are playing well for the Ducks inside. It will be a good test for us. Also, Nicole Strange always plays well in Pauley because she's so close to home, being from Huntington Beach. These are two schools that we can't afford to overlook -- and hopefully we'll play great defense and that will spark our offense and we'll come out with two victories.
Movie time It's kind of a "girl movie" and it's a lot about feelings. It stars Wynona Ryder, and focuses on what's going on inside her head and how she tries to make sense of all of it. Angelina Jolie really did a good job in that movie as well, and I really enjoyed it. So as far as my movie pics go, this is a good one if you like "chick-flick" movies. As far as school goes, this is my last quarter at UCLA. Right now I'm taking a folklore class on Africa, which is the oral stories and oral traditions of African culture. I'm also taking an Italian class on medieval and renaissance literature. I'm really enjoying both classes, especially my African class. It's fun to learn about different societies and how they portray their morals with their fables. I'm also taking 199, which is a private project with a professor. | 
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UCLA's Maylana Martin
