Women’s basketball shoots for 24th consecutive home win

Nicole Kornet is relatively old for a college student. At 23, the redshirt senior guard is the second oldest player on the women’s basketball team. After living in Kentucky, Arizona, Texas and Oklahoma, she landed at UCLA after transferring from the University of Oklahoma last year. When the No. 13 UCLA women’s basketball team (15-4, […]

After even start, UCLA women’s basketball defeats USC 74-59

The women’s basketball team’s first game against USC this season only briefly looked like a competitive rivalry. In what would eventually be a 74-59 win for the Bruins (14-4, 5-2 Pac-12), the Trojans (10-8, 1-6) came out in the first quarter playing tough basketball. They forced turnovers and made the Bruins play outside of their […]

UCLA women’s basketball aims to shoot down No. 10 Oregon State

Oregon State’s Sydney Wiese always wears a headband during games. It’s a Nike one, and she wears it low on her forehead with the logo sitting right above and between her eyebrows. It’s either red, black or white, depending on what color her jersey is. She’ll more than likely wear it when No. 10 Oregon […]

UCLA women’s basketball looks to rebound after consecutive losses

It has been a week without many answers for UCLA women’s basketball. The Bruins (11-4, 2-2 Pac-12) lost back-to-back games over the past weekend to Washington State and Washington, the first time since the 2014-2015 season they have lost consecutive games on a road trip. “Washington State was the first time all year, for this […]

Women’s basketball defeats Utah 67-56 in conference opener

The UCLA women’s basketball team’s conference opener was chaotic. It may have been better for them that way. In the No.10 UCLA Bruins’ 67-56 win over the Utah Utes (11-1, 0-1 Pac-12), nothing was particularly clean. The Bruins (10-2, 1-0) committed 22 turnovers, missed 84 percent of their 3s and had 16 fouls, putting Utah […]

Jordin Canada leads women’s basketball to 71-52 win over UCSB

Sometimes basketball is simple. In what would eventually be a 71-52 win over UC Santa Barbara (2-7), No. 9 UCLA (8-1) figured out in the second quarter what the game plan would have to be. It wasn’t complicated and it mostly involved junior point guard Jordin Canada, who ended up with 30 points, one shy […]

Women’s basketball’s win over Hawai’i reflects team’s renewed depth

There was more than one UCLA basketball game this weekend. Though the women didn’t beat the No. 1 team in the country like the men, the No. 9 women’s basketball team’s 72-49 win over Hawai’i (2-6) was a telling one. Freshman guard Lindsey Corsaro played for the Bruins (6-1) for the first time after being […]