A year ago, Madeline Brooks would have been in warmups on the bench cheering on her teammates. But this season against then-No. 10 Oklahoma, the junior guard found herself walking the almost 80 feet from the defensive baseline to the free throw line with UCLA up two points and 15 seconds left on the game […]
Category Archives: Women’s Basketball
Women’s basketball sweeps Oregon teams at home
UCLA women’s basketball held a .500 record seven separate times this season. Seven times, the Bruins stumbled and lost their next game. But on the eighth try, the team finally managed to get over the hump and now for the first time all season, hold a winning record. After defeating Oregon 88-83 Friday night and […]
Women’s basketball to test defense against Oregon teams
Midterms are coming early for the UCLA women’s basketball team. A season centered on growth has seen the team find its focus as a defensive team. While the team returned from last weekend’s road trip without both wins in tow, the steps it took toward improving defensively were more rewarding than the results it brought […]
Women’s basketball hopes to hit stride after alternating wins, losses
Lose one, win one, lose another and win another. Rinse and repeat. Such is the life of UCLA women’s basketball. It has been alternating wins and losses throughout the season except for a short period of four games. Even then, the Bruins dropped two games before winning two straight to even up the record. Those […]
UCLA women’s basketball outrebounds ASU but falls 59-57
UCLA women’s basketball coach Cori Close didn’t need to be verbose to express how it felt not to finish the weekend’s trip to Arizona with two wins: “It stinks.” But an elaboration upon that answer makes it clear why she feels that way. Her players fought hard, did everything she asked them to, but at […]
UCLA women’s basketball to play Arizona, Arizona State
Three games into the Pac-12 conference schedule, UCLA women’s basketball could easily have a record of 3-0 instead of the 1-2 conference record it currently holds. The two losses to USC and Colorado were both by just two points. Against Colorado, UCLA actually held a nine-point lead with 6:20 left in the game. Despite what […]
Despite injury, Korver inspires UCLA women’s basketball team
Knees bent, elbows in, eyes on the basket, follow through and swish. Kari Korver has made a name for herself off her deadliness from behind the three-point line. But after tearing the anterior cruciate ligament and lateral meniscus in her right knee in the first week of practice, the sophomore guard can now only watch […]