LOS ANGELES — UCLA had been away from home for so long, it took almost two weeks for the Bruin faithful to congratulate Jules Bernard on his 1,000-point milestone, a career mark he reached on Feb. 5 in a loss at Arizona State.

At Thursday night’s first stoppage of play, Bernard’s moment was honored when it was announced on the Pauley Pavilion jumbotron. The home crowd applauded the acceptance of the 58th player in program history to reach the mark.

There’s no place like home after all.

That was the prevailing feeling all night as 13th-ranked UCLA led wire-to-wire in a 76-56 Pac-12 Conference victory over Washington State. The Bruins, who had lost three of their past four games, improved to 11-1 at home this season.

Jaylen Clark scored a career-high 18 points along with 11 rebounds, five assists and four steals with no turnovers in 34 minutes.

“In my book, he had a triple-double,” UCLA coach Mick Cronin said of Clark. “He had 12 deflections.”

Johnny Juzang scored 19 points (16 after halftime) on 6-for-9 shooting (including three 3-pointers) in just 19 minutes because of early foul trouble. Cody Riley added nine points and Jake Kyman had eight, both off the bench.

“At the beginning of the year, I didn’t know how I wasn’t going to start him,” Cronin added when speaking of Clark’s performance. “He’s had a tough year with injuries and its really hurt us. This was the first week in two months he was able to string together straight practices.”

The team was without point guard Tyger Campbell, who was unavailable due to an unspecified violation of team rules, according to a team spokesperson.

The comfort level was obvious from the opening tip. It didn’t take long for UCLA (18-5 overall, 10-4 Pac-12) to take its first double-digit lead. The Bruins ran out to a 9-0 start highlighted by a Juzang 3-pointer, then a Clark 3-pointer made it 12-2 before the first media timeout.

Clark later put the ball on the floor to find Riley for a mid-range jumper before dishing to Kyman for a 3-pointer to give UCLA a 20-7 lead at the 11:26 mark in the first half.

“This season in general I’ve had a lot of head injuries and concussions that had me going in, going out, going in, going out,” Clark said. “So, I’m finally starting to find my stride that I had in the offseason coming into this season.”

The Bruins doubled up the Cougars at 28-14 after a Jaquez layup, then a Bernard 3-pointer made it 31-17. UCLA shot 59% from the field in the first half compared to Washington State’s 32%.

Nine players scored for UCLA in the opening half and the team had 12 assists on its 16 field goals, but its nine turnovers let Washington State hang around as the Bruins led 39-29 at halftime.

Washington State (14-11, 7-7) started the second half on an 8-2 run, but UCLA responded with a 15-1 run capped by another Kyman 3-pointer that ballooned its lead to 56-38.

“We had 35 deflections, which held (Washington State) to 28%,” Cronin said. “They’re a 3-point shooting team. They took 30 of their 53 (from the 3-point line).”

Juzang, who is second in the Pac-12 in scoring, had picked up two fouls in the first four minutes of the game and sat the rest of the first half. He atoned for it after halftime and scored eight straight at one point to extend the margin to 76-53, putting the Cougars away for good.

“When you go 1-3, you have to change something up,” Juzang said of UCLA’s recent stretch. “You have to do whatever it takes to turn that around, so that’s definitely been the emphasis and focus in practice. We gotta keep it going.”

UCLA shot 52% overall and 50% from behind the arc (10 for 20).

Tyrell Roberts led Washington State with 14 points, including four 3-pointers. Noah Williams and Andrej Jakimovski scored 11 apiece.

The Cougars made only 2 of their first 15 shots and were 1 for 9 from 3-point range during the first 10 minutes. Washington State’s Michael Flowers had averaged 17.6 points in the past five games but was held to 3 points on 1 of 8 shooting from the floor.