DEPARTMENT OF INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS W. Basketball Contacts: Steve Rourke/Liza David For Immediate Release SID Phone: (310) 206-6831 Dec. 29, 2004 Web Page: www.uclabruins.com UCLA WOMEN'S BASKETBALL HOSTS OREGON SCHOOLS JAN. 2 & 4 No. 23/24 UCLA Hosts Oregon State Sunday, Oregon Tuesday — No. 23 (AP)/24 2004-2005 Schedule/Results (ESPN/USA Today) UCLA (7-3, 1-0 in the Pac-10) will continue its Pac-10 Conference Date Opponent Time/Result homestand on Sunday at 2 p.m. when Oregon State (4-6, 0-1) comes to Pauley Pavilion. 11/7 Love & Basketball (ex.) L,60-73 The Bruins will host Oregon (8-2, 1-0) on Tuesday, Jan. 4 at 7 p.m. in Pauley. 11/13 West Coast All-Stars (ex.) W,93-45 Quick Recap — UCLA opened Pac-10 play with a 62-61 home win against USC on Dec. 11/19 v.TCU (@ Miami, FL Jam) L,60-65 28. The win tied the year-long 18-sport competition between the two schools for the Lexus 11/21 v.Gardner-Webb(@ Miami) W,89-48 Gauntlet Trophy at 20-each. Noelle Quinn led the way for the Bruins with 16 points and nine 11/24 Clemson W,83-52 rebounds. Lisa Willis totaled nine rebounds, as well, and added 13 points, including a 11/28 #4 Texas W,63-60 12/2 @ Pepperdine W,74-61 basket at the 2:35 mark which broke a 60-all tie. 12/5 #14 Purdue (FSN) W,70-64 Bruins In The Rankings — The Bruins checked in at the No. 23 spot on the Associated 12/11 @ Fresno State W,92-76 Press poll and at No. 24 on the ESPN/USA Today poll for the week of Dec. 27. UCLA moved 12/19 @ Illinois L,63-78 into the AP rankings at No. 25 on Nov. 29 after the win over No. 4 Texas, and debuted at 12/21 @ #7 Ohio State L,60-83 No. 20 in the ESPN/USA Today poll on Dec. 6 after the win over Purdue. It was the first time 12/28 USC* W,62-61 UCLA had been ranked in the AP poll since the week of Feb. 21, 2000, when the Bruins were 1/2 Oregon State* 2:00 1/4 Oregon* 7:00 ranked No. 22 after defeating No. 15 Arizona. UCLA was ranked as high as fourth in the 1/7 @ Washington St.* 7:00 1999-2000 season. 1/9 @ Washington* 1:00 Listen Live — UCLA will broadcast the games on the internet. Dave Marcus and Michael 1/14 Arizona State* 7:00 Sondheimer will call the action. 1/16 Arizona* 2:00 1/20 @ Stanford* 7:00 UCLA Probable Starters — 1/22 @ California* (FSN) 3:00 No. Name Pos. Ht. Cl. PPG RPG 1/27 @ Oregon* 7:00 32 Nikki Blue G 5-8 Jr. 10.9 4.2 1/29 @ Oregon State* (FSNW) 7:30 2/3 Washington* 7:00 40 Lisa Willis G 5-11 Jr. 14.6 6.2 2/6 Wash. St.* (FSN) 1:00 45 Noelle Quinn G 6-0 So. 18.9 7.1 2/10 @ Arizona* 7:00 31 Amanda Livingston F 6-1 So. 6.7 4.1 2/12 @ Arizona State* TBD 14 Lindsey Pluimer F 6-3 Fr. 10.7 5.9 2/18 California* 7:00 Off the Bench — 2/20 Stanford* (FSN) 11:00 a.m. 00 Ortal Oren G 5-9 Jr. 4.2 1.4 2/26 @ USC* 3:00 3 Shaina Zaidi G 5-8 So. 2.3 0.3 3/4-7 at Pac-10 Tourn.(San Jose) TBD 21 Brittany Ringel F 6-1 Jr.R — — All games radio broadcast on internet 22 Consuelo Lezcano F/C 6-4 So. 1.1 1.3 (www.uclabruins.com). Home games in 44 Emma Tautolo F 6-2 Jr. 1.9 1.2 bold. Times are local to site. 54 Sissy Pickett C 6-7 Sr. 1.0 1.3 20 Lauren Pedersen G 5-10 Fr. 2.3 1.2 5 Stephanetta Bingley G 5-2 So. — — Pac-10 Standings (12-28-04) Team Overall Conf. Bruin Notes — The Bruins have won eight-straight home games (4-0 this season) over Stanford 9-1 1-0 the past two seasons … A 6-1 season start was UCLA's best beginning to a season since Arizona 9-2 1-0 the 1980-81 UCLA team won its first 12 games … Noelle Quinn has scored in double digits Arizona State 9-2 1-0 in the last 31 consecutive games … Nikki Blue became the 20th Bruin to reach the 1,000- Oregon 8-2 1-0 point mark for her career during the second half of the Fresno State contest … The Bruins UCLA 7-3 1-0 own a 13-0 record when Quinn scores at least 20 points in a game and have lost all three California 6-4 0-1 games this season in which she was held to less-than 20 … Quinn is second in the Pac- USC 6-4 0-1 Oregon State 4-6 0-1 10 in scoring, fourth in steals (2.89) and rebounding (6.9) and fifth in assists (3.56) … Lisa Washington St. 4-6 0-1 Willis leads the Pac-10 in steals (3.67) and needs one more made three-point shot to set Washington 4-7 0-1 a new school record for career three-pointers (currently tied with DeDe Mosman with 136) Jan. 2-- Wash. St. at Stanford, Washington at … Willis is shooting .880 for the season (22-25) from the free throw line … Amanda Cal, Oregon at USC; Jan. 3 - Arizona at ASU Livingston has blocked six shots in her last three games … Four players currently have more assists than turnovers this season (Quinn, Blue, Livingston and Oren), and three pg. 1 of 5 have more steals than turnovers (Willis, The team rebounded from a 4-6 Pac-10 start For the Record Quinn, Pedersen). last season to capture seven of the last eight UCLA 80 pts or over 3-0 conference games and finish in a tie for third Scouting the Beavers — Oregon State is 4- UCLA 79 pts or under 4-3 place. That third place finish marked the fifth 6 overall and 0-1 in the Pac-10 (hosting Cal on time in the last seven seasons that the Bruins Opp 80 pts or over 0-1 Dec. 29). Guard Shannon Howell topped the have wound up among the top four teams in Opp under 80 pts 7-2 Pac-10 in scoring entering the week with a the conference. 20.4 scoring mark. Howell also ranks sixth in Lead at half 6-1 Coaches and Media Pick Bruins To Finish Tied at half 0-0 the Pac-10 in free throw % (.847), ninth in assists (3.3), seventh in steals (2.4), 10th in Third In Pac-10 — The Pac-10 women’s Trail at half 1-2 three-point shots made (1.6) and ninth in basketball coaches picked UCLA to finish Fg% .500 or better 0-0 assist/turnover margin (1.06). third in the conference, with one first-place Fg% less than .500 7-3 vote, in the annual pre-season poll. Stanford, with eight first-place votes, was the solid Opp Fg% under .450 5-1 The Series With Oregon State — UCLA leads the series, which dates back to 1976, choice to finish first. The Cardinal were fol- Opp. Fg% btn .450-.500 1-0 by a margin of 27-16. The Bruins have won lowed by Arizona (one first-place vote), UCLA, Opp Fg% over .500 0-2 three of the last four meetings and split the Arizona St., Oregon, Washington, USC, Cali- Outshooting/tied Opp. 5-0 games last season. UCLA won the last meet- fornia, Oregon St. and Washington St. Outshot by Opp 2-3 ing of the 2003-04 season in Pauley by a The Pac-10 media also selected UCLA to UCLA Reb. Adv./Tied 4-0 score of 91-58 in late January. That victory finish third (122 points). Stanford, with eight ignited a six-game winning streak which Opp. Reb. Advantage 3-3 first-place votes and Arizona, with seven helped to propel the Bruins into the NCAA With five minutes to play: first-place votes, were picked to repeat as tournament. Quinn (24), Blue (23) and Willis co-champions with 140 points each. Arizona UCLA leads 5-0 (21) gave the Bruins three players with 20 State was fourth (100), followed by Washing- UCLA trails 1-3 points in the same game for the first time ton (83), Oregon (78), USC (61), Oregon St. Game tied 1-0 since March of 2001. The Beavers bested the (45), California (34) and Washington St. (22). Bruins, 82-68, on January 2, 2004 in Corvallis. Blue led UCLA with 25 points. Blue, Quinn Earn National Honors — ’04-05 Individual Stats Guards Nikki Blue and Noelle Quinn have Scouting the Ducks — Oregon is 8-2 on the Double Double (pts/reb) been selected to several pre-season watch year and 1-0 in the Pac-10 (hosting Stanford lists for national honors, including the pre- Quinn (2) on Dec. 29 and at USC on Jan. 2). The Ducks Willis (1) season Naismith Award list, the Wade Tro- entered the week first in the Pac-10 in assists phy Watch List and the Wooden Award All- (17.5) and third in the Pac-10 in shooting America Watch List.