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 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.
[2] Jim Harrick (Morris Harvey College) Roster Last update: 30 January 2018 Source[4] [5]