Cori Close didn’t want to talk about Uconn. As the 4-seed UCLA women’s basketball team (23-8, 13-5 Pac-12) plays 13-seed Boise State (25-7, 12-6 Mountain West) on Saturday, the coach insisted on the group’s need to focus on the opponent in front of them rather than the potential Sweet 16 match-up that may happen in […]
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Women’s basketball guard Kari Korver plays last Pac-12 game of career
Redshirt senior guard Kari Korver played her last Pac-12 women’s basketball game with UCLA’s loss to Oregon State on Saturday. [Related: Women’s basketball ends Pac-12 tournament with 63-53 loss to Oregon State] After the loss, junior guard Jordin Canada was in tears while talking about her teammate. “There’s no one that I’d rather play basketball […]
Women’s basketball ready for postseason push as Pac-12 tournament starts
The Pac-12 tournament is here, and it’s been a season of highs and lows for UCLA women’s basketball. The Bruins (22-7, 13-5 Pac-12) started out the season 17-4, looking like the team that was picked to win the conference. Over the course of the season, they would lose three players to injuries and five of […]
Confrontation key to restoring unity for UCLA women’s basketball
The UCLA women’s basketball team’s back-to-back wins came after a week of soul searching. The team lost to both No. 10 Oregon State and unranked Oregon on the road the weekend before, the latter game costing the team a shot at the Pac-12 regular season title, which they were favored to win at the beginning […]
Jordin Canada, despite injury, key to UCLA’s 90-79 win over Washington
Jordin Canada has been playing against Kelsey Plum for a long time. Both five-star recruits from southern California, they constantly battled each other growing up. They have also praised each other profusely. Canada cites Plum as one of her favorite opponents. But in UCLA women’s basketball team’s 90-79 win against No. 9 Washington (24-4, 12-3 […]
Women’s basketball creates unique, personalized recruitment process
An email was sent around the UCLA women’s basketball office marked “classified” and “top secret.” The team was in the middle of a battle – as it is every year – to recruit the best players in the country. The subject of the email was Natalie Chou, a highly touted player visiting from Texas. She […]
Women’s basketball continues home winning streak with weekend Arizona wins
Junior guard Jordin Canada says coach Cori Close constantly tells her players to breathe. During the UCLA women’s basketball team’s first game of the weekend, the No. 13 Bruins (17-4, 8-2 Pac-12) watched what had been an 18-point lead against the No. 16 Arizona State Sun Devils (14-7, 5-5) dwindle to six with just over […]