UCLA Women's Basketball: Charisma Osborne Finalist For Prestigious Award
It's been a banner season for your UCLA Bruins.
The team finishes its 2023-24 regular season run with a 24-5 record (13-5 in the Pac-12), while being ranked as the seventh-best club in the country for the final Associated Press Top 25 prior to the postseason.
UCLA's offensive rating of 108.4 makes it the 18th best in the NCAA out of 360 teams, and its 83.3 defensive rating standing as the No. 37-strongest in the land.
According to UCLA Communications, graduate student shooting guard Charisma Osborne, the Bruins' team leader, has emerged as a final contender for the Ann Meyers Drysdale Shooting Guard of the Year award, honoring the best player at her position.
This is not the only honor for Osborne that has been announced today. She also has been named to her fourth All-Pac-12 team (sophomore guard Kiki Rice and sophomore center Lauren Betts also received that recognition) and her second All-Pac-12 Defense team (Betts was also named to that group).
Osborne will be competing for the accolade with Florida State's Ta'Niya Latson, the University of Connecticut's Paige Bueckers, USC's JuJu Watkins, and West Virginia's JJ Quinerly.
Starting this Friday, UCLA fans can get in on the voting fun at hoophallawards.com.