LOS ANGELES — Matt Barnes waltzed into Pauley Pavilion about a minute into Tuesday night’s game, taking his seat just under the basket the UCLA men’s basketball team was shooting on in the first half.

That meant, in the second half, he got an up-close-and-personal view of a Bruins defense that has forced a nation’s best 18.6 turnovers per game, a rate that, in the last 25 years of UCLA basketball, is second to only Barnes’ 1998-99 freshman season, when the Bruins forced 20.2.

Talent and ball-handling prowess across college basketball has only improved since then. That doesn’t seem to matter to these Bruins, who boast the guard depth to full-court press for an entire game and step into passing lanes with a timely peskiness.

On Tuesday, the 18th-ranked Bruins (10-1) forced 17 turnovers in a 111-75 victory over Prairie View A&M (1-10). They, however, let the Panthers’ offense score more than they did a much better Arizona team on Saturday in Phoenix.

The Bruins jumped out to a 21-8 lead before a six-minute stretch in which they didn’t record a field goal allowed the Panthers to get the margin back within single digits.

The Bruins extended their advantage in the second half, scoring 26 points in the first seven minutes en route to their highest-scoring outing of the season.

Dylan Andrews led the Bruins with 21 points and Tyler Bilodeau added 18, continuing his trend of being the Bruins’ most consistent source of half-court offense this season.