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Malachi Smith got his tournament redemption. · Gonzaga went right to work inside with Adem Bona out of the lineup for the Bruins with Drew Timme touching the ...

- We’ve talked about the need for Gonzaga to go on one or two defensive runs per game if they’re not gonna be one of the top defensive teams in the country (the first half very much confirmed that is not a possibility), and they absolutely pulled off the defensive run in the middle of the second half. Things turned around for Gonzaga when Sallis and Smith checked in and it would have been coaching malpractice not to roll with them for the rest of the game notwithstanding the last minute situational substitutions. - It will be easy to miss, but Hunter Sallis put together a very impactful game when Gonzaga really needed solutions in the backcourt off the bench. - You don’t see too many games with a rebounding disparity as large as the one between these teams (50-26) and that results in such a tight game. The guards repeatedly failed to keep Tyger Campbell bottled up and in front of them and the team as a whole played as if they had never seen a ball screen before. To be completely clear, I am not at all complaining about Timme going nuclear, especially when it looked like no one was ready to step up to be the secondary scorer, but it felt like that’s what happened in this one.

"When I was going through the line after the game [in South Carolina], [Dawn Staley] says, 'We will meet again,'" the Michael Price Family UCLA Women's.

After leading the Pac-12 all season in O-boards (14.9 ORPG), the Bruins rank 19th in ORPG in the NCAA tournament (12.5 ORPG). has scored 557 points (2nd - Pac-12) in 35 games, averaging 15.9 ppg (5th - Pac-12). has started 35 of her 36 games during the freshman's first collegiate season, averaging 28.0 minutes per game (1,009 MIN, 1st among Pac-12 freshmen). Osborne ranks 1st the Pac-12 in minutes played (1,157 MIN), 6th in FT% (83.2%), and 6th in FTM (114). • UCLA is one of two teams in Division I women's basketball with a scoring margin of -6.0 or less in its losses (min. KEY NOTES ON THE BRUINS UCLA is on pace for its best FT shooting season performance in team history (2021-22: .767 FT%). UCLA jumped out to a 13-point lead at the break; The thing I love about this team is that they really -- I think I mentioned this before, they're really good learners. [Kiki Rice](/sports/womens-basketball/roster/kiki-rice/11213) 25; the game is set to be broadcast on ESPN with Beth Mowins, Debbie Antonelli and Angel Gray on the call. Because of the way that they competed.

UCLA guard Kiki Rice drives to the basket against South Carolina guard Brea Beal during the first half of the Bruins' 73-64 loss on Nov. 29. The Bruins face ...

Who we have to lean on and become in the last four minutes of a game.” 3 and [lost by five points in overtime](https://www.latimes.com/sports/ucla/story/2023-02-03/ucla-women-struggles-overtime-loss-arizona-recap). “We weren’t able to finish the job in the fourth quarter the first time, so to get another shot at them when we feel like we’ve gotten so much better is a great opportunity for us,” Rice said after UCLA’s win over Oklahoma. Playing in front of more than 12,000 fans in Columbia, S.C., the Bruins cut South Carolina’s lead to two with 3:41 left, but the Gamecocks responded with a 7-0 run. [73-70 loss at Colorado](https://www.latimes.com/sports/ucla/story/2023-01-27/ucla-colorado-womens-basketball-recap) on Jan. UCLA, which lost 73-64, is one of five teams to hold the Gamecocks to a single-digit margin this season. But in six postseason games, the Bruins have a 4.5-point advantage in the fourth quarter and overtime. Early in the week, the Bruins will trail at the start of the scrimmage against male practice players. UCLA made just one shot from the field during overtime in a 4 UCLA (27-9) outscored opponents by an average of just one point in the fourth quarter and overtime during the regular season. They exorcised their crunch-time demons on the way to their first Sweet 16 since 2019 and will face No. Two minutes and 30 seconds on the clock.

The Bruins lost in the Sweet 16 for the second year in a row, blowing a 13-point second-half lead in their rematch with the Bulldogs.

Do not let the capricious nature of the basketball gods detract from the heroic effort on display by the Mick Cronin-led Bruins vs. Gonzaga in the NCAA's ...

During this whirlwind springtime of March Madness, with so many office pools, I have a suggestion: Let’s start a pool to see who receives the largest number of negative letters submitted to the Times Sports editor this year. The women get Ppage 5. Fast-forward 53 years and it’s likely that in the same situation Kawhi Leonard or Anthony Davis would sit out the game due to “load management.” Ramsey celebrated the move as the Rams continued to restructure their roster. Next season looks like it will be a long one, worse than the last and don’t be surprised if McVay bails afterward. MLB could learn a thing or two from this tournament that was a classic in all senses of the word. He likes winning too much. [tragic case of Andrew Toles](https://www.latimes.com/sports/dodgers/newsletter/2023-03-21/andrew-toles-dodgers-dugout) and his mental illness. It’s easy to complain and gripe about sports teams and their upper management, which exploits its players. Instead they were allowed to bring the ball up as fast as possible to set up a play coach Few said they practice all the time. UCLA’s true character was illustrated in grabbing a last-minute lead after being down by 10 points only two minutes earlier. ::

South Carolina beat its first two opponents of the NCAA tournament — Norfolk State and South Florida — by a combined 63 points. The Gamecocks, led by head coach ...

She’s third on the team with 9.4 points per game and leads the team in rebounds with 5.8 per game. Conti has the most assists on the team with 115 and averages 3.3 assists per game. We just trust that everyone’s put the work in.” The Gamecocks, led by head coach Dawn Staley and her 400 wins, average 81 points per game while holding opponents to roughly 50 points. Kiki Rice leads the freshmen and has started in 35 games this season. The Bruins are 12-6 in road games this season and Saturday’s game could bring an intense crowd. I feel like that’s a big question in what we have here.” Londynn Jones, Lina Sontag, Gabriela Jaquez and Christeen Iwuala round out the freshman group. The UCLA women’s basketball team will make its eighth Sweet 16 appearance in the NCAA tournament on Saturday. Since then, South Carolina has gone on to earn the overall No. In those moments, we are going to look to Charisma to be our steadying force.” “We’ve learned a lot, we’ve faced a lot of different adversity and stacked it on top of each other.

Jaime Jaquez Jr. and Tyger Campbell joined coach Mick Cronin at the dais following victorious Gonzaga's elongated media availability – Cronin grumbled about how ...

“They better heed those words if they want the NCAA to exist and continue. And we better figure it out if we want to continue. It sounds like a guy ready to tackle the future. You’ve got to be tough enough to figure it out if you want to win.” UCLA won 31 games this season, 80 in the last three seasons with Jaquez, Campbell and Singleton playing prominent roles, with a Final Four and two Sweet 16s to show for it. “And I would remind that to the new head of the NCAA,” he added, a message for new president and former Massachusetts Gov. After two straight Final Fours in 2007 and ’08 under Ben Howland, UCLA missed the tournament in 2010 and 2012 and Howland was fired after the 2012-13 season. Cronin’s first UCLA team in 2019-20 was 19-12 and didn’t appear in the tournament because there wasn’t one, thanks to COVID-19. The day before, Cronin had said, “If it doesn’t go our way, I’m not going to come in here and say we lost because these two guys weren’t playing or these three guys weren’t playing. “When you watch Dave Singleton and you see he’s limited athletically, you see that he gets everything he can out of his body and his talent. You can’t get any more out of his body and his God-given things that he has that he can’t change. And I just played him because he was as crazy as me.

As ever, March Madness has given fans some brilliant storylines from the world of college basketball.

No. Elsewhere No. 2 Utah, No. 4 UCLA, No. The No. 4 Tennessee and No. 5 Louisville and No. 7 Michigan State and No. 3 Kansas State plays No. The Hurricanes are the only real ‘Cinderella’ team left in the women’s tournament and they take on the No. 2 seed UCLA faces No. Elsewhere on Thursday, No.

UCLA's seniors won't raise banner No. 12 after another heartbreaking loss to Gonzaga, but they brought toughness and pride back to a storied program.

[Pooh Richardson](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-07-01-sp-10698-story.html) (833). He walked with Jaquez, Singleton, [Kenneth Nwuba](https://uclabruins.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/kenneth-nwuba/11342) and [Russell Stong IV](https://www.latimes.com/sports/ucla/story/2021-11-25/meet-ucla-most-beloved-player-walk-on-russell-stong) on senior night but has not indicated whether he might return next season. Clark (lower leg) and Bona (shoulder) are recovering from significant injuries that could entice them to return for another college season to show NBA teams they are ready for the next level. When Cronin told Mack, a 6-foot-3 combo guard from Las Vegas, that the Bruins needed his shooting, Mack responded, “I’m coming to play defense and win, coach.” When Jaquez said he didn’t know what to say about overtaking the legendary Bruin last weekend, Cronin patted him on the shoulder and added, with a smile, “Come back for a fifth year.” You can’t get any more out of his body and his God-given things that he has that he can’t change. [Plaschke: UCLA goes from brilliant to broke as history cruelly repeats itself vs. And now they won’t take the court together as Bruins again. They made it to one Final Four and three Sweet 16s. 12, but these guys were going to give you everything they had every time they took the court while restoring the fabric of a proud program. They built a culture centered on toughness and accountability. It was the end of an era.

Jaime Jaquez Jr. and Tyger Campbell joined coach Mick Cronin at the dais following victorious Gonzaga's elongated media availability – Cronin grumbled about how ...

“They better heed those words if they want the NCAA to exist and continue. And we better figure it out if we want to continue. It sounds like a guy ready to tackle the future. You’ve got to be tough enough to figure it out if you want to win.” UCLA won 31 games this season, 80 in the last three seasons with Jaquez, Campbell and Singleton playing prominent roles, with a Final Four and two Sweet 16s to show for it. “And I would remind that to the new head of the NCAA,” he added, a message for new president and former Massachusetts Gov. After two straight Final Fours in 2007 and ’08 under Ben Howland, UCLA missed the tournament in 2010 and 2012 and Howland was fired after the 2012-13 season. Cronin’s first UCLA team in 2019-20 was 19-12 and didn’t appear in the tournament because there wasn’t one, thanks to COVID-19. The day before, Cronin had said, “If it doesn’t go our way, I’m not going to come in here and say we lost because these two guys weren’t playing or these three guys weren’t playing. “When you watch Dave Singleton and you see he’s limited athletically, you see that he gets everything he can out of his body and his talent. You can’t get any more out of his body and his God-given things that he has that he can’t change. And I just played him because he was as crazy as me.

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15 Washington baseball games have been selected to air across the Pac-12 family of networks this season. The full list of UW players ranked is below.UW in D1Baseball's Position Rankings Defensively, Tincher threw out 10 of 31 runners attempting to swipe a bag last season, while garnering a .989 fielding percentage.POSITION RANKINGS was named the Week 3 Perfect Game National Pitcher of the Week and Pac-12 Pitcher of the Week. has made his biggest impact this season in the biggest moments. is summoned from the Husky bullpen, a Washington victory is nearly a matter of fact. It was the first multi-homer game of Simpson's career and also moved Simpson into a tie for 10th place all-time at Washington with 27 career home runs. The Husky leadoff has demonstrated his power too, with nine of 17 hits during the streak going for extra bases.WILL POWER The Huskies last got off to a hotter start in 1994, beginning that campaign 16-3. five in the West by D1Baseball.SERIES HISTORY VS. • Ranked No. 7 UCLA in a three-game series at Jackie Robinson Stadium.