After the No. 1 Trojans and No. 2-seeded Bruins women’s basketball teams took care of business in the first round, they have an opportunity to put an exclamation point on an inflection point …
UCLA’s Charisma Osborne and USC’s JuJu Watkins have the full attention of Los Angeles basketball fans after both high seeded teams won their opening games on Saturday. LOS ANGELES – One rainy spring Saturday in Los Angeles. Two college basketball arenas. A grand total of 17,227 fans on hand to see victories for the home teams by a combined 61 points.against No. 16 Texas A&M Corpus Christie, 87-55 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.
I can’t remember ever seeing a dude wearing a woman’s jersey 20 years ago. It looks good on you guys.No pressure, ladies, but this tournament could be a game-changer locally. An opportunity to put the exclamation point on an inflection point.
So we’ve wound up with both teams playing on the same day – and worse, on Monday, with both teams’ games overlapping. UCLA will take on No. 7 Creighton at 5:30 p.m. at Pauley; USC will host Kansas at 7 p.m. across town at Galen.USC started the year ranked 21st and spent the season building toward its first No. 1 seed since 1986. More formidable by the footstep, Lindsay Gottlieb’s team has Texas A&M Corpus Christie’s coach expecting big things.
Over at UCLA, Close’s squad – on that ascent for years now – started so well this season that the Bruins climbed into No. 2 in the Associated Press poll, higher than ever in the program’s history. And that’s how they ended the regular season too, with their highest tournament seeding ever.favors; the Bruins are playing this thing on the Hard setting.
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