SAN JOSE “”mdash; To advance through the Pac-10 Tournament and possibly earn a bid to the NCAA Tournament, the UCLA women’s basketball team knew it had to lean on juniors Nikki Blue and Lisa Willis to get it there. But even the Bruins were surprised to the extent Blue and Willis were forced to carry […]
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W. hoops: Bruins seeking tourney berth
For four months, the UCLA women’s basketball team has had the comfort of knowing that no matter how it played, there was always another game left on the schedule. The Bruins can no longer fall back on that luxury. When sixth-seeded UCLA takes to the court Saturday morning in its opening game of the Pac-10 […]
Two UCLA teams don’t make NCAA grade
The NCAA released a preliminary academic report to all of its member institutions earlier this week, and two UCLA teams failed to make the grade. Data collected from the 2003-04 academic year for the NCAA’s Academic Progress Rate (APR) revealed that the UCLA football and men’s soccer teams do not meet the NCAA’s new academic […]
W. basketball: UCLA’s loss puts chances at NCAA Tournament in doubt
Given 27 games to define the 2004-2005 season, the UCLA women’s basketball team will likely look back at the final minute of its final game as the determinant to this season’s fate. Down by three to USC with 10 seconds remaining, junior Lisa Willis, who was fouled on a 3-point attempt, stepped up to the […]
W. basketball: Quinn may hold off until NCAA tourney
In one scenario, Noelle Quinn is summoned off the bench in the final minutes of the season’s last game, upon which she carries the Bruins to a triumphant victory. In another scenario, Quinn decides that coming back from a knee injury too quickly jeopardizes her future basketball career, thus she shuts it down for the […]
M. golf: Men’s golf finishes 3rd at Sawgrass
It’s not often a team finishes a tournament a collective 30-under par and is dissatisfied with the result. Even rarer, however, is when a team finishes 19-over par and feels much better about itself. Yet that’s exactly the situation the No. 8 UCLA men’s golf team found itself in on Tuesday. One week after posting […]
W. golf: Bruins get into swing at Wildcat Invitational
From the season’s onset, UCLA women’s golf coach Carrie Forsyth did not want to see her team revel in last year’s team’s championship success. For a second consecutive run at an NCAA title, Forsyth felt her team needed to establish an identity of its own. Tuesday was the first time she saw a glimpse of […]