UCLA Women's Basketball: Bruins To Face Tough Test In First Pac-12 Game Of Season

How long can this undefeated run last?

Your UCLA Bruins are on a heck of a run right now. 

After going undefeated (11-0) in non-conference play, Cori Close's Blue and Gold will see their schedule get much tougher against another undefeated Pac-12 rival, Lindsay Gottlieb's 10-0 USC Women of Troy. The club will then head to the Pacific Northwest, where the Bruins face off against the 9-4 Oregon Ducks on January 5th and yet another undefeated program (as of this writing), the 10-0 Oregon State Beavers, on January 7th.

The Pac-12 is one of the country's most competitive conferences, which remains the case in its 2023-24 swan song. UCLA will join the Big Ten next year, which it frankly should dominate, along with the three other Pac-12 expats (USC, Washington, and Oregon).

6'7" sophomore center Lauren Betts, a transfer out of Stanford who had been the No. 1 prep school recruit in the land circa 2022, has been a galvanizing force for the team, which also seems to be reveling in the internal growth of returning senior guards Charisma Osborne and Camryn Brown (both of whom could have departed the program and tested the pro waters), alongside several talented underclassmen in sophomore guard Londynn Jones, sophomore wing Gabriela Jaquez, sophomore guard Kiki Rice, and junior forward Angela Dugalic.