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DEPARTMENT OF INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS W. Basketball Contacts: Steve Rourke/Liza David For Immediate Release SID Phone: (310) 206-6831 Nov. 21, 2005 Web Page: www.uclabruins.com UCLA WOMEN’S BASKETBALL HOSTS BYU TUESDAY IN HOME OPENER Bruins Host BYU on Nov. 22 — The Bruins (0-1) host BYU (1-0) on Tuesday in the 2005-2006 Schedule home opener to be played in Pauley Pavilion at 7 p.m. The Bruins have gone 29- 9 at home over the past three seasons. Date Opponent Time/Result 11/6 Love & Basketball (ex.) W,86-75 UCLA travels across town to play on Friday and Saturday in the LMU/Ayres Hotel 11/13 Play Mode (ex.) W,103-62 Thanksgiving Tournament. The Bruins meet nationally-ranked Georgia at 5 p.m. 11/18 @ Baylor (FSN) L,85-93 on Nov. 25 (Charlotte and Loyola Marymount University play in the other contest). 11/22 Brigham Young 7:00 The Bruins could open up the regular season facing four straight teams which 11/25 v. Georgia (@ LMU Tourn.) 5:00 advanced to post-season play a year ago (Baylor and Georgia were in the NCAA 11/26 v. LMU or Charlotte 3/5:00 tournament; BYU and Charlotte played in the WNIT). 11/30 UC Irvine 7:00 12/3 @ Clemson 7:00 On Air — All of UCLA's games in 2005-06 will be audio broadcast live on UCLA 12/5 @ Oklahoma 7:00 All-Access via UCLABruins.com. Play-by-play announcer Dave Marcus will begin 12/8 Pepperdine 7:00 coverage with The Bruins Countdown Show starting five minutes before the hour. 12/17 @ UC Santa Barbara 2:00 UCLA (0-1) Returning Starters (# ’05-06 starts/career starts) — 12/20 Oregon* 7:00 12/22 Oregon State* 7:00 No. Name Pos. Ht. Cl. PPG RPG 12/30 @ California* 7:00 32 Nikki Blue (1/86) G 5-8 Sr. 12.0 7.0 1/1 @ Stanford (FSN) 1:00 40 Lisa Willis (1/59) G 5-11 Jr. 22.0 3.0 1/6 Arizona* 7:00 45 Noelle Quinn (1/43) G 6-0 So. 20.0 11.0 1/8 Arizona State* 2:00 14 Lindsey Pluimer (1/29) F 6-4 So. 14.0 4.0 1/12 @ Washington* 7:00 31 Amanda Livingston (1/30) F 6-1 Jr. 8.0 1.0 1/14 @ Washington State* 2:00 Others (# '05-6 games/career starts) 1/21 @ USC* (FSN) 1:00 00 Ortal Oren (1/2) G 5-9 Sr. 0.0 0.0 1/27 Stanford* (ESPNU) 7:00 1 Ashlee Trebilcock (1/0) G 5-9 Fr. 8.0 3.0 1/29 California* 2:00 2 Tierra Henderson (1/0) G 5-10 Fr. 1.0 1.0 2/2 @ Arizona State* 6:30 3 Shaina Zaidi (0/0) G 5-8 So. 0.0 0.0 2/4 @ Arizona* 4:00 11 Julia Pitts (0/17) F 6-2 Jr. 0.0 0.0 2/9 Washington State* 7:00 20 Lauren Pedersen (1/11) G 5-10 So. 0.0 1.0 2/11 Washington* (FSN) 1:00 2/18 USC* 1:00 21 Brittany Ringel (0/0) F 6-1 Jr.R 0.0 0.0 2/23 @ Oregon State* 7:00 22 Consuelo Lezcano (0/0) F/C 6-4 So. 0.0 0.0 2/25 @ Oregon* 3:00 23 Chinyere Ibekwe (1/0) F/C 6-4 Fr. 0.0 1.0 3/3-6 at Pac-10 Tourn.(San Jose)TBD 44 Emma Tautolo (0/0) F 6-2 Jr. 0.0 0.0 All games radio broadcast on internet About BYU — BYU finished the 2004-05 season with a 19-11 record. The Cougars (www.uclabruins.com). Home games in were third in the Mountain West Conference and advanced to play in the Women's bold. Times are local to site. NIT, where it lost a first round matchup with Gonzaga. The Cougars opened the 2005-06 season last week by winning at Cal State Pac-10 Standings (11/21) Northridge, 76-59. Six-two senior forward Ambrosia Anderson led the Cougars Team Pac-10 Overall with 25 points and nine rebounds. Six-three junior center Dani Kubik added 22 Arizona State 3-0 points and seven boards. BYU rallied from a 40-26 halftime deficit to defeat CSUN. Oregon State 2-0 USC 2-0 Series vs. BYU — UCLA leads the series with BYU by an 8-2 margin. UCLA won Washington 2-0 the last meeting, played on Nov. 27, 2001, by a score of 73-62 in Pauley Pavilion. Washington State 2-0 Arizona 1-0 UCLA In Season Openers — UCLA is 23-8 all-time in home openers. The Bruins California 2-1 defeated Clemson, 83-52, in last season's opener. The Bruins have won four Oregon 2-1 straight home openers with wins over Clemson, UNLV, St. Mary's and Ohio State. Stanford 1-1 Looking Ahead — UCLA's next home contest is on Wednesday, Nov. 30 against UCLA 0-1 UC Irvine at 7:00 p.m. Bruins Fall to Defending National Champs in Season Opener — Baylor defeated the Bruins 93-85 in Waco,TX despite 22 points from Lisa Willis and 20 from Noelle Quinn. Baylor led for almost the entire game, but not by more than six points in the first half and had a 47-43 advantage at the break. The Lady Bears opened up pg. 1 of 5 their first double-digit lead in the conference in the annual pre-season poll. Stanford, with UCLA In Home Openers un- of the contest, 79-69, at the nine first-place votes, was the solid choice to finish first. The der Coach Olivier 5:03 mark of the second Cardinal (81 points) were followed by USC (one first-place vote, 2004 Clemson W 83-52 half and built it up to as 70), Arizona State (62), UCLA (60), Oregon (43), Arizona (42), 2003 UNLV W 61-51 many as 14, 88-74 with 2:20 Washington (36), California (30), Washington State (16) and 2002 St. Mary's W 72-60 to play. UCLA battled back Oregon State (10). 2001 Ohio State W 64-60 to close the gap to seven, 2000 Utah L 42-65 92-85, on a three-point shot 2005-06 Outlook — Coach Kathy Olivier is set to return one of 1999 Texas W 84-77 by Willis with 15 seconds the nation's finest backcourts with its "Triple Threat" of Blue, 1998 UConn L102-113 remaining. UCLA then the Quinn and Willis. The threesome combined to average 50.2 1997 Geo. Wash. L 73-78 stole the ball in the Baylor points, 19.0 rebounds, 10.5 steals and 11.9 assists a game in 1996 Texas Tech L 80-95 backcourt, but a Tierra 2004-05. Overall, 11 letterwinners (all five starters) are back for 1995 San Diego W 87-69 Henderson three-point at- the Bruins from last season's 16-12 team which finished 10- 1994 NC State L 55-58 tempt did not fall and UCLA 8 and sixth in the Pac-10 conference. Three talented newcom- 1993 UCSB W 71-54 was forced to foul with seven ers have joined the mix to step up the competition level at seconds to play. Baylor hit several positions. one free throw to make the final score 93-85. Blue and Willis ranked fourth and fifth in the Pac-10 in scoring Bruins Use Balanced Attack In Exhibition Games — Thirteen last season. Quinn was on track to join them until she was of UCLA's 14 uniformed players scored in both exhibition sidelined by a knee injury in mid-January. The pair ranked first games as the Bruins swept through the pre-season with wins and second in the conference in steals. Willis was ranked sixth over Love and Basketball (86-75) and Play Mode (103-62). In in the nation in steals and Blue checked in at 11th. Willis ranked the win over Love and Basketball, nine players scored seven No.1 in the Pac-10 in three-point field goals made and tied for points or more, with junior guard Noelle Quinn leading the way 25th in the nation. Blue was second in the conference in assists with 13 points, eight rebounds and five assists. Lisa Willis, and 12th in the nation in that category. Chinyere Ibekwe and Ashlee Trebilcock scored nine points Quinn, who had been selected Pac-10 Player of the Week three apiece, and Nikki Blue had seven points with nine assists, five times earlier in 2004-05, saw her season end early when she rebounds and four steals. Lindsey Pluimer tied with Quinn for landed awkwardly on her knee while driving the lane for a shot the team lead in rebounds with eight. Against Play Mode, four against Arizona. She underwent arthroscopic surgery on her players were in double-figures for scoring, with Quinn and left knee a few days later and sat out the remainder of the year. Willis tied for the team lead with 21 points apiece. Pluimer had The Bruins went 5-7 the rest of the way. 17 points on 5-7 shooting, to go along with eight rebounds, and Amanda Livingston scored 10 on 5-6 shooting. Quinn again led Forwards Amanda Livingston and Lindsey Pluimer are the the team in rebounding with nine boards. Willis had six re- other returning starters. Livingston ranked eighth in the confer- bounds and was 5-7 from the three-point line.