Some thought Spanish center Awa Fam could be the No. 1 pick in Monday night’s WNBA Draft, but she ended up going No. 3 to the Seattle Storm behind No. 1 pick Azzi Fudd and No. 2 pick Olivia Miles. Fam would have been just the fourth international player to go No. 1 in the…
The NCAA national champion UCLA women’s basketball team made history Monday night, with five players selected in the first round of the WNBA draft. The first Bruin off the WNBA draft board was Lauren Betts, who went No. 4 overall to the Washington Mystics. Betts’ selection touched off a lengthy Bruins celebration in New York,…
The UCLA women’s basketball team has scored the school’s first-ever women’s NCAA championship title, dominating the South Carolina Gamecocks 79-51 in a hard-fought Easter Sunday game that capped several years of momentum for the Bruin squad that features superstar player Lauren Betts. Betts, the team’s 6’7″ center, and guard Kiki Rice led the Bruins to…
A new national champion will be crowned in women’s college basketball on Sunday afternoon as UCLA and South Carolina meet in the NCAA Tournament title game. All four No. 1 seeds made it to Phoenix for the Final Four, and South Carolina pulled off a surprising upset of previously unbeaten UConn on Friday night. South…
The once-unbeaten team has fallen. There will be a new champion of women’s college basketball. Just 40 regulation minutes separate heroism from heartbreak, inscription from blank space. No one wants to be on the sad side of a confetti drop. UCLA arrives in pursuit of its first NCAA title, while South Carolina goes for a…
It was ugly. It was beautiful. It was a messy rock fight. It was Bruin ballet. In front of a stunned crowd at Phoenix’ Mortgage Matchup Center Friday night, the UCLA women’s basketball team defied stereotypes and defined toughness and did what few believed this dancing, dazzling group could do. They beat somebody up. They…
p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix”> UCLA forward Angela Dugalic looks to pass around Minnesota guard Mara Braun during a Sweet 16 game on Friday in Sacramento. (Eric Thayer/Los Angeles Times) UCLA has now survived two games when it didn’t shoot well from long range. The Bruins can get away with that when Lauren Betts and Angela Dugalic are…
SACRAMENTO — The team that can’t stop dancing won’t stop dancing. The top-seeded UCLA women’s basketball team beat Duke 70-58 in the Elite Eight. It wasn’t balletic, but beautiful. Sunday’s game at Golden 1 Center in Sacramento wasn’t a fun, free-flowing joy ride that so many of the Bruins’ wins have been this season. It was a…
SACRAMENTO — During the UCLA women’s basketball team’s dominant run all season, a question has lingered. When the moment comes, can the No. 1 Bruins actually deal with adversity? They answered on Sunday, storming back from their first double-digit deficit of the season to earn a 70-58 Elite Eight victory over No. 3 Duke and advance to…
On a day when No. 1 seeds dominated, UCLA wasn’t the exception. The top-seeded Bruins led wire-to-wire, beating No. 8-seed Oklahoma State 87-68 in the second round of the NCAA tournament on Monday night at Pauley Pavilion to advance to the Sweet 16. They will face No. 4-seed Minnesota on Friday in Sacramento. While UCLA…
