Los Angeles ? Seven years after Tyus Edney’s length-of-the-court drive and layup beat the buzzer and Missouri, UCLA hopes it won’t take another miracle shot to get past the Tigers.

The Bruins won that second-round game 75-74, and eventually earned their 11th national championship.

Edney dribbled the length of the court in 4.8 seconds and got off his game-winner over 6-foot-9 Derek Grimm and 6-1 Jason Sutherland, stunning the Tigers and triggering a joyous midcourt celebration.

“We were all grateful that Tyus made the shot and that we were able to extend our season and play another week,” coach Steve Lavin said Tuesday.

Lavin was an assistant under Jim Harrick during that game and took over when Harrick was fired 20 months later.

Not much has changed since 1995. Lavin and his staff were under fire this season for the Bruins’ roller-coaster performances.

For the impressive victories over then-No. 1 Kansas and at Stanford, there were several clunkers, including an early loss to Ball State in Hawaii, a 29-point blowout by Oregon and a first-round exit in the Pac-10 tournament.

“The lows are lower and the highs are higher at UCLA,” said Lavin, who along with Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski are the only coaches in the nation to reach the final 16 five times in the last six years.

“So everyone is surprised when we have breakthroughs, but as a coach you see the progress day-to-day.”

In 1995, the Bruins were a No. 1 seed. They had lost to Tulsa in the first round the previous year, and would lose to Princeton in the first round of the 1996 NCAA tournament.

In between came the greatest play Lavin said he’s ever seen.

“It was kind of a storybook finish,” he said. “I remember 15 or 20 minutes later in the locker room, the team was just so excited.”

UCLA freshman Cedric Bozeman was 12 when he saw Edney’s heroics while watching the game at his grandmother’s house.

“That was a big giant-killer,” Bozeman said. “Hopefully, we can squeak by and get a clean victory.”

When eighth-seeded UCLA (21-11) plays 12th-seeded Missouri (23-11) in a West Regional semifinal Thursday night in San Jose, it’ll be a pairing of two similar programs.

Fifth-year seniors Rico Hines and Billy Knight are in their fourth final 16, but have never advanced to a Final Four.

Hines won’t play in San Jose after injuring his left knee against Cincinnati. There’s a chance he could play if the Bruins advance to next week’s Final Four.

“I feel we have as much talent as they do,” he said. “I expect us to go out and beat Missouri.”