CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) -- Ryan Bailey got zero for style points, a 10 for results.

	Ed Cota's last-second, 3-point shot fell short.

Bailey, who had made only eight free throws all season, banked in two with 14.9 seconds left Saturday as UCLA beat No. 13 North Carolina 71-68.

"I came to the line thinking they were going in. They didn't go in the way I wanted them to go in, but they went in," said Bailey, who was 5-for-8 from the foul line this year before Saturday.

Bailey said he knew he would be North Carolina's target to foul after the Tar Heels closed within one point in the final seconds.

"If they were going to foul anybody, they were going to foul me," the junior guard said. "Coach (Steve) Lavin just tells me don't shoot them short, shoot them long if you are going to shoot them, give them a chance to bounce off the backboard, bounce off the rim. I was listening to him and they went into the basket."

The Bruins (10-4) won a close one after being 0-2 in one-point games this season.

The Tar Heels (11-6) lost their second non-conference home game of the season, the first time that has happened since the mid-1940s. North Carolina lost to Michigan State 86-76 on Dec. 1 in the Smith Center.

"We're competitors and we played hard," North Carolina coach Bill Guthridge shot back when asked about his team's intensity, which has been an issue recently.

"They knocked in some shots early and that made their intensity look better. I think we have intensity, we're just not a rah-rah type of team."

Jerome Moiso led UCLA with 19 points, including two key baskets after North Carolina had closed to 62-60.

Jason Capel led the Tar Heels with 21 points, including his team's first 10 points of the second half.

Capel's two free throws with 21.7 seconds left pulled the Tar Heels to 69-68. Bailey then banked in the winning free throws.

"He missed those free throws so far he made them," Guthridge said.

"There's no question, in terms of percentages, North Carolina played it the right way," Lavin said of the Tar Heels' decision to foul Bailey. "But Bailey is a veteran player."

Three-point attempts by Capel and Ed Cota were off the mark in the final seconds.

"It's a real big win for our program and this will give us a lot of momentum," Bailey said. "But we have to get off our high horse when we come back to practice on Monday so we don't have big heads."

The Bruins led 45-43 with 15:53 left before going on a 13-4 run to open an 11-point lead. The margin was accomplished with leading scorer Jason Kapono on the bench with four fouls.

The Tar Heels came charging back once Kapono returned with 5:34 left, going on a 9-0 run to close to 62-60 before Moiso scored on a follow shot and a banker.

UCLA made 11 of its first 13 shots to go up by 12 eight minutes in. Kapono keyed a 14-3 run with a 3-pointer and a three-point play.

"They got off to a fantastic start and we never could quite get over the hump," said Guthridge.

UCLA's leading scorer got his third foul late in the half as the Bruins went cold and the Tar Heels finally began to solve UCLA's 1-2-2 zone.

North Carolina made six of seven shots during one stretch to climb back into it before a dunk by Brendan Haywood, an 18-footer by Joseph Forte and a steal and dunk by Max Owens tied the score at 37 with under a minute left in the half.

The Tar Heels, coming off its season-low points total and shooting percentage in a 66-57 loss at Wake Forest on Wednesday, shot 59 percent in the opening 20 minutes, but managed just 39 percent in the second half.

Ed Cota's eight assists gave him 891, moving him into 10th place on the NCAA's career list.