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Jasmine Dixon came up a bit gimpy after taking a flagrant foul against the Sun Devils on Thursday, but the junior forward was more than coherent against the Wildcats Saturday.
The All-Pac-10 performer finished with 22 points and nine rebounds during the UCLA women’s basketball team’s 70-60 win over Arizona, using her deft footwork to glide around stagnant Wildcat defenders.
“I still feel that I could have worked a lot harder than what I did,” the junior forward said.
Boos from the home crowd don’t normally fill Pauley Pavilion when the UCLA women’s basketball team gets a resounding win over a Pac-10 opponent.
Four seasons ago, Dymond Simon had all the makings of the next destined-for-stardom player in the women’s college basketball game.
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BERKELEY “”mdash; Thursday didn’t quite consist of the shock-the-country performance the Bruins were hoping to deliver.
To beat the Nikki Caldwell-led Bruins, the opposing team needs to break its suffocating full-court pressure.
It’s something coach Nikki Caldwell calls “organized chaos.”
Senior guard Darxia Morris describes it as “aggressive.”
