Social Media Reacts To Injury Ridden Semifinal Match

However, that was when disaster struck, as Dent went down with his injury and two Bruins bench players got more minutes out of necessity, which made many viewers nervous.

The Bruins were even down by eight points with little. time to go in the first half, and without their two best players they couldn't catch back up before the buzzer sounded and had a 34-27 deficit to climb.

An Injury Ridden Semifinal Rematch With Purdue: The Second Half

Things looked over for the Bruins coming out of the locker-room because they let the Boilermakers extend their lead past double digits and could not find any sort of offensive rythym.

Social media already started looking towards March Madness, and even the most resilient UCLA fans had lost hope for the Big Ten tournament.

The thing is, UCLA was not done playing and they put together a serious comeback attempt against the Boilermakers across the final ten minutes of the game.

At time they got within the lead by a point or two, and even tied which was incredibly impressive without their top two starters to viewers.

Unfortunately the comeback bid fell short in the final minute and Purdue was able to pull away, leading to a final score of 73-66 in favor of Purdue.

They had been hit with a bad-break, but UCLA fans online are ready for the bigger tournament and even Purdue fans were able to recognize how good the Bruins performed.