UCLA Women's Basketball Vs Ohio State: How To Watch, Predictions And More

Your undefeated (9-0, to be precise) UCLA Bruins will square off against the 9-1 Ohio State Buckeyes today, in an effort to build up a double-digit winning streak at this early point of the 2023-24 season with expectations sky high.

OSU is the No. 12-ranked club in the land, per The Associated Press' latest poll, while UCLA is no slouch, either, as the country's No. 2-ranked team.

The game, set to tip off at 3:30 p.m. PT, will be televised on Fox Sports 1, and streamed via Fubo, per UCLA Communications.

Ohio State is fresh off a 94-84 home win over another Big Ten rival, the Penn State Lady Lions, last Sunday. That same day, UCLA walloped a ranked team of its own, the 21st-ranked Florida State Seminoles, 95-78, at Mohegan Sun Arena in Connecticut.

Sophomore guards Kiki Rice and Londynn Jones will be squaring off against a perennial teammate in international play tonight, in OSU sophomore forward Cotie McMahon. The six-footer is a lethal scoring threat, averaging 15.8 points a night on 53.8% field goal shooting, along with 5.5 rebounds, 1.7 assists and 1.5 steals.

Rice, Jones and McMahon won the gold medal in this past summer's FIBA U19 World Cup, as well as last summer's U18 Americas Championship.

Given the X-factor that is breakout UCLA star center Lauren Betts, I think the Bruins will remain perfect, beating the Buckeyes in an unusually close game, 70-63.