Trent Perry will be back at UCLA next season, according to multiple sources. The guard had a breakout 2025-26 campaign averaging 12.6 points, 3.0 rebounds and 2.8 assists per game. Perry began his sophomore season on the bench but emerged as a starter when Skyy Clark injured his hamstring. Perry started UCLA's last 22 games of the season. He projects to be a key player for the Bruins next season, and he may play more point guard than shooting guard, his main position in 2025-26.
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Perry's best game of the season came when he dropped 30 points in a road win over Penn State. Filling in for the injured Donovan Dent in UCLA's Big Ten Tournament semifinal defeat to Purdue, Perry played all 40 minutes and scored 15 points with nine assists. Perry struggled at times during the season though, like when he went 0 for 7 in UCLA's late-February defeat to Minnesota, and then in the Bruins' Round of 32 NCAA Tournament defeat to UConn, where he shot 2 for 8 from the field and scored five points.
Perry took the UConn defeat particularly hard.
"I just feel like I let my team down today," Perry said afterwards in UCLA's locker room. "I'm sorry to Tyler [Bilodeau] especially because he wasn't able to play and I wasn't able to perform the best that I can to get him out here. To all the seniors, I feel like I let my team down. 100 percent."
When he was asked to reflect on his sophomore season following the UConn defeat, Perry said: "Everything that happened to me this season is great. A lot of ups and downs...I'll be better."
Perry's return officially gives UCLA seven scholarship players for next season. Eric Dailey Jr., Xavier Booker, Brandon Williams and Eric Freeny have all announced they'll return. The Bruins will also add two scholarship players from the high school ranks in center Javonte Floyd and power forward Joe Philon.
Additionally, Clark is petitioning the NCAA for another year of eligibility, and he may come back too if his waiver is granted.
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