Johnson Still in Reserve

Coach Steve Lavin said senior swingman Kris Johnson will remain a reserve for tonight’s game against Northern Arizona.

J.R. Henderson, Toby Bailey, Baron Davis, Earl Watson and either Travis Reed or Billy Knight will start, Lavin said.

Johnson made his season debut Saturday after a suspension and scored 15 points in 15 minutes in the Bruins’ victory over Cal State Fullerton.

“[We] kind of like the pace he’s on right now,” Lavin said. “[We’re] really just more concerned with him continuing to play really good basketball.”

TONIGHT

vs. Northern Arizona

* 7:30 * Fox Sports West 2

Site--Pauley Pavilion.

Radio--AM 1150.

Records--No. 11 Bruins 4-1, Lumberjacks 4-3.

Update--In the first of three games in six days for UCLA at Pauley Pavilion, the Bruins face the Lumberjacks for the first time. Northern Arizona, which lost, 87-76, to Arizona State on Dec. 3, returns all five starters from a 21-7 team of a year ago that almost made the NCAA tournament. The Lumberjacks, who finished second in the nation behind UCLA in field-goal percentage, are led by 6-foot-6 Andrew Mavis, who is averaging 15.1 points a game and has made 42.5% of his three-point shots.