1995–96 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team

1995–96 UCLA Bruins men's basketball
Pac-10 regular season champions
NCAA tournament, Round of 64
ConferencePacific-10
Ranking
CoachesNo. 19
APNo. 14
Record23–8 (16–2 Pac-10)
Head coach
Assistant coaches
Home arenaPauley Pavilion
1995–96 Pacific-10 Conference
men's basketball standings
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT
No. 14 UCLA 16 2   .889 23 8   .742
No. 11 Arizona 14 4   .778 27 6   .818
Stanford 12 6   .667 21 8   .724
Washington State 9 9   .500 18 11   .621
Washington 9 9   .500 16 12   .571
Oregon 9 9   .500 16 13   .552
USC 6 12   .333 13 17   .433
Arizona State 6 12   .333 11 16   .407
Oregon State 4 14   .222 6 21   .222
California1 2 16   .111 2 26   .071
As of November 23, 2011
Rankings from AP Poll
1California forfeited games due to infractions.

The 1995–96 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team represented the University of California, Los Angeles in the 1995–96 NCAA Division I men's basketball season as Defending National Champions from 1995, but bookended the season with two disappointing losses. While ranked #4, one loss was in the Maui Classic to a Santa Clara team led by then obscure guard Steve Nash. The team finished 1st in the conference. The Bruins competed in the 1996 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, flopping in a spectacular upset to the unranked Princeton Tigers in the round of 64. This was the final season for head coach Jim Harrick, a national championship coach who was fired over a transgression where he lied about two current players attending a recruiting dinner at Monty's Steakhouse, in contravention of NCAA rules.