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WESTWOOD — A top UCLA official apologized Saturday after a surge of fans waiting to enter Pauley Pavilion for Friday night’s men’s basketball game against Villanova created a scare in the wake of the recent deadly crush at the Astroworld concert in Houston.

“Thank you to all who attended tonight’s basketball game,” Bruins Athletic Director Martin Jarmond tweeted at 12:36 a.m. “I’m aware of challenges some had with the line to get into the game. We were not adequately staffed to handle the turnout. I apologize and it will be corrected moving forward.”

https://www.dailynews.com/2021/11/13/crowd-surge-outside-ucla-basketball-game-prompts-concern/

The local radio news is playing interviews of witnesses who said the bottleneck was due to short staffing and glitches with the vaccine verification system. People spoke of the app not working and having to log out and back in a few times to get it to work, as the line grew ever longer behind them.