LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kenny Heitz, a member of three NCAA championship teams at UCLA, has died following a long battle with cancer. He was 65.
UCLA said Tuesday that Heitz, who played with the Bruins from 1967-69, died Monday in Pacific Palisades.
Heitz joined Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (then Lew Alcindor), Lucius Allen and Lynn Shackelford on the 1965-66 freshman team that defeated the two-time defending national champion varsity in the first game played in Pauley Pavilion.
The Bruins finished with an 88-2 record during Heitz’s career and became the first school to win three consecutive titles.