BOYS' BASKETBALL

BOYS’ BASKETBALL

By BEN BOLCH

Jan. 3, 2000 12 AM PT

Most ranked teams put the finishing touches on their nonleague schedules early this week before engaging in league play.

No. 3 Troy (14-1)--which last week suffered its only loss of the season, to Redmond (Wash.) in a San Francisco tournament--will play at Brea Olinda (10-4) Wednesday. The Wildcats are coming off a championship in their own tournament.

The Warriors--whose record is their best to this point in a season during Coach T.J. Hardeman’s 10-year tenure--then will open Freeway League play Friday against visiting Sonora.

Second-ranked Ocean View (13-2) plays at upstart University (10-4) on Saturday.

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Ben Bolch has been a Los Angeles Times staff writer since 1999. He is serving his second stint as the UCLA beat writer, which seems fitting since he has covered almost every sports beat except hockey and horse racing. Bolch is also the author of the recently released book “100 Things UCLA Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die.” He previously covered UCLA basketball from 2010-11 before going on to cover the NBA and the Clippers for five years. He happily traded in gobs of hotel points and airline miles to return to cover UCLA basketball and football in the summer of 2016. Bolch was once selected by NBA TV’s “The Starters” as the “Worst of the Week” after questioning their celebrity journalism-style questions at an NBA All-Star game and considers it one of his finer moments.