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Jasmine Dixon came up a bit gimpy after taking a flagrant foul against the Sun Devils on Thursday, but the junior forward was more than coherent against the Wildcats Saturday.
The All-Pac-10 performer finished with 22 points and nine rebounds during the UCLA women’s basketball team’s 70-60 win over Arizona, using her deft footwork to glide around stagnant Wildcat defenders.
“I still feel that I could have worked a lot harder than what I did,” the junior forward said.
Jasmine Dixon came up a bit gimpy after being on the receiving end of a flagrant foul in a game against Arizona State on Thursday, but the junior All-Pac-10 performer was more than coherent during UCLA’s 70-60 win over Arizona Saturday at Pauley Pavilion.
To beat the Nikki Caldwell-led Bruins, the opposing team needs to break its suffocating full-court pressure.
Ben Howland has already led his team into a hostile arena to battle a formidable low-post sibling tandem this season against Kansas, and now it’s Nikki Caldwell’s turn.
After a taut, no-nonsense performance against USC on Saturday, the UCLA women’s basketball team was locked in a plodding game that featured two of the most defensively stingy teams in the conference.
Up-and-unders, mid-range jumpers, power moves, hook shots on the block.
Junior forward Jasmine Dixon had her full arsenal on display against the Women of Troy on Saturday, pouring in 20 points and grabbing nine rebounds.
It was perhaps the Bruin women’s basketball team’s most dominant victory thus far, and undeniably their most complete effort.
With a dominant showing on the boards and on defense, the team’s Saturday performance was perhaps how coach Nikki Caldwell envisioned the team playing upon taking the job two years ago.
“I thought we had good preparation leading up to the game,” said Caldwell.
The crosstown rivalry on Saturday featured multiple sequences that epitomized UCLA women’s basketball coach Nikki Caldwell’s coaching philosophy.
