After two wins last week to close its regular season, UCLA women’s basketball (13-11, 8-8 Pac-12) will enter the Pac-12 tournament in Las Vegas this week as the No. Read more...
Photo: The UCLA women’s basketall team huddles together inside the 3-point line. The Bruins will face No. 10 seed USC on Wednesday in the first round of the Pac-12 tournament. (Harold Lee/Daily Bruin)
Cori Close said certain words from the late John Wooden still ring in her mind. “Coach Wooden used to say something to me that I don’t think I understood the power of until later,” the 11th-year coach said. Read more...
Photo: Redshirt freshman forward Angela Dugalić drives to the basket against Colorado forward Mya Hollingshed. Since making her debut for UCLA women’s basketball on Feb. 11, Dugalić has 4.9 points per game, including eight per contest in her last three outings. (Marie Goldfarb/Daily Bruin)
The Bruins entered last week having lost their seventh game in nine tries, dropping their overall record to .500 for the first time all season. With two matchups left in the campaign, UCLA women’s basketball (13-11, 8-8 Pac-12) was one loss away from finishing the regular season at .500 or worse for the first time since the 2014-2015 season. Read more...
Photo: UCLA women’s basketball players huddle up. The team finished the year with its worst regular-season record since 2014-2015. (Sarah Teng/Daily Bruin)
Sports are in full swing all year long – from the prep level to the professional ranks. Each Monday, Daily Bruin Sports will highlight a few moments from former UCLA greats over the past week. Read more...
Photo: Former UCLA women’s volleyball outside hitter/opposite Mac May attempts a serve during a match against Arizona State on Nov. 19. May currently ranks second in Volley Bergamo 1991 in kills. (Lauren Kim/Daily Bruin)
This post was updated Feb. 27 at 10:44 p.m. For the first time this season, the Bruins secured a second consecutive victory on the road. In its final game of the regular season, UCLA women’s basketball (13-11, 8-8 Pac-12) defeated Arizona State (12-14, 4-9) by a score of 59-52 in Tempe. Read more...
Photo: Junior guard Charisma Osborne handles the ball around the perimeter. The junior guard put up a team-high 17 points in UCLA women’s basketball’s win over Arizona State on Saturday. (Lauren Kim/Daily Bruin)
This post was updated Feb. 24 at 9:17 p.m. After sitting out of the Bruins’ most recent game Feb. 20, Charisma Osborne was a game-time decision Thursday evening. Read more...
Photo: Junior guard Charisma Osborne handles the ball around the perimeter in UCLA women’s basketball’s loss to Colorado on Feb. 18. Osborne returned from a one-game absence to put up a game-high 18 points in the Bruins’ win over No. 12 Arizona on Thursday evening. (Christine Kao/Daily Bruin staff)
For most, playing under the bright lights of Pauley Pavilion is a dream in and of itself. But some Bruins dream beyond the basketball court. Shortly after the murder of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis in May 2020 sparked a wave of social justice movements across the country, six UCLA women’s basketball players were inspired to use their platform to educate and empower others on the issues that Black people face in America. Read more...
Photo: The six members of the 2021-2022 More Than a D.R.E.A.M. initiative stand together. The group includes two UCLA women’s basketball players who are new to the initiative this season in graduate student guard Jaelynn Penn and graduate student forward IImar’I Thomas. (Courtesy of Caren Nicdao/UCLA Athletics)
