Tuesday, December 16

Unanswered questions: The final stretch of Pac-12 UCLA basketball

Question marks have surrounded both UCLA men’s basketball and No. 7 UCLA women’s basketball since before either of their seasons started. As the former enters the last two games of its regular season and the latter prepares for a conference tournament featuring five other ranked teams, some of those questions still linger. Read more...

Photo: Images of UCLA men’s and women’s basketball players fill the silhouettes of coaches Cori Close (left) and Mick Cronin (right). (Helen Quach/Design director)


Grace’s Whits: For coach Cori Close, the first step toward a dynasty is the conference title

Every coach’s dream is to build a dynasty program. A one-and-done national championship win is worthy of hype, but most times, it’s the dynasty programs – the ones with the iconic coaches, top recruiting classes and a brand that lives beyond the ones that wear it – that cut down the nets. Read more...

Photo: University of Connecticut coach Geno Auriemma, UCLA coach Cori Close, Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer and South Carolina coach Dawn Staley are pictured. (Photo by Brandon Morquecho/Photo editor, Jeremy Chen/Photo editor, courtesy of UConn athletics. Photo illustration by Julia Chen/Daily Bruin)


Women’s basketball Pac-12 tournament predictions

UCLA women’s basketball (24-5, 13-5 Pac-12) will enter the 2024 Pac-12 tournament as the No. 3 seed – its highest seed in three years. The Bruins will travel to Las Vegas with a first-round bye and will face either No. Read more...

Photo: Graduate student guard Charisma Osborne, sophomore guard Kiki Rice, sophomore guard Londynn Jones, graduate student guard Camryn Brown and sophomore forward Christeen Iwuala sit on the bench. (Myka Fromm/Photo editor)




UCLA women’s basketball dominates Arizona State in last weekend of conference play

This post was updated Feb. 29 at 11:17 p.m. Both the AP and Coaches polls currently list UCLA as the eighth-best team in the country. But after the Bruins learned Thursday evening that the committee responsible for NCAA tournament seeding ranked them even higher, they responded with a dominant performance on the road. Read more...

Photo: Sophomore center Lauren Betts dribbles down the court. Betts scored a floor-high 20 points while also grabbing 11 rebounds against Arizona State. (Megan Cai/Photo editor)




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