<p>It wasn't a pregame drill, but Thursday night's blowout victory over USC sure felt like it to the Bruins. </p>
<p>"Lay-up after lay-up after lay-up," senior Dijon Thompson said. </p>
<p>"I don't think we got this many dunks in exhibition games. And it can't get any better than doing it against USC in my last game against them." </p>
<p>Yes, the celebration at Pauley Pavilion was well underway by the time the final buzzer sounded on UCLA's 90-69 rout of crosstown rival USC, and the Bruins wasted no time joining the party. </p>
<p>Freshmen Jordan Farmar and Arron Afflalo slapped hands with a group of jubilant students as they left the court. Junior Michael Fey flipped his trademark headband into the crowd. And Thompson flung himself into the center of a horde of shirtless Bruin football players, high-fiving, chest-bumping, and reveling in UCLA's most convincing victory in coach Ben Howland's two-year tenure.</p>