Women’s basketball heads to the desert

A traffic jam on the 405-freeway isn’t as jumbled as the Pac-10 women’s basketball standings are right now. This weekend’s slate of conference games, however, should ease some of the congestion. With the season nearing its midway point, and with the UCLA women’s basketball team two-and-a-half games out of first place, the pressure of winning […]

W. Basketball: For Bruins, there’s no place like home

Sometimes all it takes is a little home cooking to right the ship. The UCLA women’s basketball team is banking on that sentiment after an up-and-down start to its season. The Bruins (8-6, 3-2 Pac-10) held off a pesky Washington squad (8-7, 1-5) 65-60 Sunday afternoon at Pauley Pavilion for their third consecutive victory, improving […]

W. soccer: Postseason defense proves strong

Twenty minutes after the final seconds had ticked away of the UCLA-Penn State NCAA quarterfinal, a frustrated Nittany Lion player kicked a water bottle into the empty Bruin net. The bottle was the only object to get past UCLA’s women’s soccer’s defense so far this postseason. For the fourth consecutive tournament match, the Bruins posted […]

W.hoops: Texas a tough test for young squad

The bitter feeling of narrowly missing the 2003 NCAA tournament still resides with the members of the UCLA women’s basketball team. One of the main factors that cost the Bruins a tournament berth last year was the team’s soft non-conference schedule. No such problem exists this year, as UCLA (1-0) commences a brutally difficult non-conference […]

W. basketball: Basketball nets crucial season-opener win

It wasn’t a typical season opener for the UCLA women’s basketball team. Though they hadn’t played one second of an official game this season, the Bruins carried a heavy weight on their shoulders in their opener against UNLV. Win and start the season off on the right foot, or lose and play national powerhouses Texas and […]