Fast break transition layups, seven seconds or less – that isn’t something that should be expected this Thursday when the UCLA women’s basketball team takes on Colorado for the Pac-12 tournament. Read more...
Photo: Senior guard Thea Lemberger, averaging 15 points this season compared to 8.6 last season, credits her success to adding moves like floaters. (Miriam Bribiesca/Daily Bruin)
It wasn’t always pretty, but UCLA women’s basketball ended the regular season with a win. Heading into its final weekend before the Pac-12 conference tournament, the Bruins were looking to continue the focus and aggression that they found against the California Golden Bears and the Stanford Cardinal last week. Read more...
Photo: With UCLA down seven points to Utah early in the second half, sophomore guard Nirra Fields brought an offensive spark for the Bruins, pushing them past the Utes. (Miriam Bribiesca/Daily Bruin)
She’s been here for six years, battled through two separate ACL injuries and is now earning a graduate degree at UCLA. Through it all, Atonye Nyingifa has played 135 games, the most in UCLA women’s basketball history, and now can finally see the end of a long, but rewarding, journey. Read more...
Photo: After six years at UCLA, senior forward Atonye Nyingifa will play in her final regular season games for the Bruins this weekend. (Miriam Bribiesca/Daily Bruin)
For 36 years, Ann Meyers Drysdale held the UCLA women’s basketball record for career blocks at 101 as a guard standing at just 5 feet 9 inches. Read more...
Photo: Redshirt junior Corinne Costa became UCLA women’s basketball’s career blocks leader in the Bruins’ game against the Washington State Cougars after recording the 102nd block of her career. (Miriam Bribiesca/Daily Bruin)
Any player cutting into Thea Lemberger’s lane better expect some contact. “I’m excited to hit ‘em,” she said. The women’s basketball senior guard has already taken the most charges on her team, but she’ll gladly take some more.She’ll dive for loose balls. Read more...
Photo: Senior guard Thea Lemberger has been playing with a stress fracture in her right leg this season, but is still averaging 37.7 minutes and 15.2 points per game. (Tim Bradbury/Daily Bruin senior staff)
At the end of 40 minutes, the Stanford Cardinal emerged victorious. The primarily blue crowd in Pauley Pavilion was on its feet, applauding. But the cheers were not for the No. Read more...
Photo: As seniors Thea Lemberger and Atonye Nyingifa played their final home game Sunday, coach Cori Close will look to sophomore Nirra Fields to be a future leader for the team. (Miriam Bribiesca/Daily Bruin)
This weekend may be the last time this season that a UCLA women’s basketball game opens with a recording of a John Wooden quote. It’ll be the same lights, the same hoops and the same fans in Pauley Pavilion one last time, as UCLA takes on No. Read more...
Photo: Senior guard Thea Lemberger will be playing in the final regular-season home game of her college career this weekend. UCLA will play California on Friday in its “Play 4Kay” game – the Bruins’ 8th annual breast cancer awareness game, and honor its senior basketball players Sunday during its game against Stanford. (Photo credit: Joseph Chan)
