UCLA WOMEN’S BASKETBALL UCLA Athletic Communications / J.D. Morgan Center / 325 Westwood Plaza / Los Angeles, CA 90095 Women’s Basketball Contact: Ryan Andersen / [email protected] / c: (916) 337-7914 2019-20 SCHEDULE No. 8/7 UCLA Bruins (26-4, 14-4) vs. No. 7/8 Stanford Cardinal (26-5, 14-4) OVERALL: 25-4 Saturday, Mar. 7, 2020 – 8:30 p.m. PT Pac-12: 14-4 | Non-Conference: 11-0 Las Vegas, Nev. (Mandalay Bay Events Center) Home: 14-1 | Away: 10-3 | Neutral: 1-0 GAME INFO THE MATCHUP NOVEMBER (6-0) Tue. 5 Weber State W, 85-45 Venue: Mandalay Bay Events Center Sat. 9 Loyola Marymount W, 74-52 Location: Las Vegas, Calif. Thu. 14 Long Beach State W, 86-51 Tip-off Time: 8:30 p.m. PT Fri. 22 Northern Colorado W, 92-58 TV: Pac-12 Network Tue. 26 Yale P12N W, 100-65 TV Talent: Krista Blunk, Mary Murphy, Jill Savage 26-4 (14-4) Record 26-5 (14-4) Sat. 30 vs. UCF ^ W, 61-56 Radio: ucla.leanplayer.com 8/7 Ranking (AP/Coaches) 8/7 Radio Talent: Dave Marcus (play-by-play) DECEMBER (6-0) Cori Close Head Coach Tara VanDerveer Sun. 1 at Virginia ^ W, 73-62 198-103 (9th) Record at School (Year) 941-201 (34th) Sat. 7 at CSUN W, 58-44 SERIES HISTORY VS. STANFORD Sun. 15 Pacific W, 68-57 Michaela Onyenwere Top Scorer Kiana Williams Thu. 19 at Georgia ESPN+ W, 59-50 Overall: .............................................. 26-62 (89th meeting) Michaela Onyenwere Top Rebounder Lexie Hull Sun. 22 at Indiana BTN W, 68-58 at UCLA: ..............................................................13-24 Japreece Dean Top Assists Kiana Williams Sun. 29 USC * P12N W, 83-59 at STAN: ..............................................................11-29 @UCLAWBB Twitter @StanfordWBB Neutral: ...................................................................0-1 JANUARY (6-2) Current Streak ............................................... UCLA, W1 STORYLINES • UCLA (26-4, 14-4) got off to the best start in program history with Fri. 3 Arizona State * P12N W, 68-66 Last Meeting: ..... UCLA won at Stanford, 79-69 (Feb. 7, 2020) Sun. 5 Arizona * P12N W, 70-58 16-straight wins to open the season. The Bruins surpassed the Close vs. Opponent: ....................................................4-13 Fri. 10 at Utah * P12N W, 84-54 1980-81 squad’s original streak of 12-straight wins to start the year with a 68-66 win over Arizona State (Jan. 3). Sun. 12 at Colorado * P12N W, 65-62 • Cori Close earned her 100th-career Pac-12 victory in the Bruins’ Fri. 17 at USC * P12N L, 68-70 (2OT) TALE OF THE TAPE (2019-20 STATS) victory over then-No. 6/5 Stanford on Friday, Feb. 7. Close has 198 Fri. 24 Washington * P12N W, 85-80 (OT) wins overall and is four victories away from 200 for her career. Sun. 26 Washington State * P12N W, 66-50 UCLA STAN • The Bruins opened the season 5-0 in Conference play for the first Fri. 31 at Arizona * P12N L, 66-92 73.4 SCORING OFFENSE u 74.1 time since the 2012-13 season, when the team won its first six Pac- 12 games. UCLA’s 14-4 record in Pac-12 games is tied for the best FEBRUARY (6-2) 61.7 SCORING DEFENSE u 59.5 league record in Cori Close’s tenure (2017-18, 2015-16, 2012-13). Sun. 2 at Arizona State * P12N W, 70-61 • Charisma Osborne earned Pac-12 Freshman of the Week honors +11.7 SCORING MARGIN u +14.5 on Monday, Feb. 24. She averaged 25.7 points and 9.7 rebounds Fri. 7 at Stanford * P12N W, 79-69 across UCLA’s week of action, including a pair of career-high scoring Sun. 9 at California * P12N W, 74-70 (OT) .393 FG% u .446 performances in the Bruins’ wins over Oregon State (Feb. 17) and Fri. 14 Oregon * P12N L, 66-80 Washington State (Feb. 21).. Mon. 17 Oregon State * ESPN 2 W, 83-74 (OT) .387 FG% DEFENSE u .352 • Osborne had a monster night in the Bruins’ win over Washington Fri. 21 at Washington State * P12N W, 70-62 State (Feb. 21). The freshman put up a career-high 32 points and Sun. 23 at Washington * P12N L, 68-74 .284 3FG% u .361 added 11 rebounds, good for her first 30-10 game and the first such Fri. 28 Colorado * P12N W, 62-52 performance by a Bruin this season. .304 t 3FG% DEFENSE .308 • Senior guard Japreece Dean notched 22 points in UCLA’s victory MARCH (1-0) over No. 15 Oregon State (Feb. 19), surpassing 1,000 points for her Sun. 1 Utah* P12N W, 77-54 5.9 3FG MADE/GAME u 8.6 Bruin career. Dean also dished out a career-high 12 assists against Fri. 6 USC** P12N W, 73-66 .735 t FT% .692 the Beavers, her third game with at least 10 assists this season. Sat. 7 Stanford P12N TBD • Junior Michaela Onyenwere is the Pac-12’s second-leading 41.9 t REBOUNDS 41.3 scorer with 19.1 points per game. The forward is also third in the ^ Cavalier Classic (John Paul Jones Arena, Charlottesville, Va.) Conference in rebounding, grabbing 8.6 boards per contest. * Pac-12 Conference Game 16.6 t REBOUNDING OFF. 12.7 • UCLA’s road sweep of then-No. 6 Stanford (Feb. 7) and California ** Pac-12 Tournament (Mandalay Bay Events Center, Las Vegas) (Feb. 9 was the first Bay Area road sweep for the Bruins since 1999. All times listed are Pacific 25.3 REBOUNDING DEF u 28.6 • With UCLA’s victory over No. 15 Oregon State (Feb. 17), the Bruins secured their fifth win over a ranked opponent this year (at No. +3.6 REBOUND MARGIN u +6.6 12 Indiana, vs. No. 18 Arizona, at No. 19 Arizona State, at No. 6 SOCIAL MEDIA Stanford, vs. No. 15 Oregon State). 16.3 t ASSISTS 14.8 • With Oregon State’s loss to Arizona State (Jan. 12), the Bruins Women’s Basketball Twitter: @UCLAWBB became the last remaining undefeated team in the nation at 16-0. Women’s Basketball Instagram: @UCLAWBB 11.8 t TURNOVERS 13.4 This is the first time the last undefeated team in the nation has been from the Pac-12. Women’s Basketball Facebook: /UCLAWomensBasketball 1.4 t ASSIST/TO RATIO 1.1 UCLA Athletics Twitter: @UCLAAthletics • UCLA established a season high with 29 offensive rebounds in the UCLA Athletics Instagram: @UCLAAthletics team’s victory over Utah (Mar. 1). The Bruins lead the Pac-12 in 9.6 t STEALS 7.8 offensive rebounding with 16.6 per game. UCLA Athletics Facebook: /UCLAAthletics • The Bruins have won 75 of their last 84 games at Pauley Pavilion, UCLA Athletics Website: www.UCLABruins.com 3.1 BLOCKS u 5.0 including 17 of their last 18 (14-1 this year). UCLA went 11-5 at Head Coach Twitter: @CoachCloseUCLA home last season. #GoBruins SCORE BY QUARTERS (TOTAL PTS & AVG ARE FOR 2019-20; HIGH IS ALL-TIME MARK) 1 (AVG/HIGH/OPP) 2 (AVG/HIGH/OPP) 3 (AVG/HIGH/OPP) 4 (AVG/HIGH/OPP) OT (AVG/HIGH/OPP) TOTAL UCLA 514 (17.1/38/SJSU) 513 (17.1/33/@BAY) 580 (19.3/35/SJSU) 523 (17.4/40/@UTAH) 59 (11.8/14/@ARIZ) 2201 Opponent 437 (14.6/31/ORE) 417 (13.9/28/@STAN) 498 (16.6/27/TOL) 569 (19.0/31/WSU) 43 (8.6/16/ND) 1664 UCLA QUARTER HIGHS (ALL-TIME) TEAM HIGHS INDIVIDUAL HIGHS POINTS REBOUNDS ASSISTS BLOCKS STEALS POINTS REBOUNDS 40 - @UTAH 21 - SAC 11 - LMU 6 - UTAH 8 - SJSU 17 - Jordin Canada (USF-4Q) 10 - Monique Billings (WSU-2Q) 38 - SJSU 19 - JMU 10 - SJSU 5 - UTAH 8 - ORE 17 - Nirra Fields (UTAH-4Q) 8 - Monique Billings (StJ-2Q) 35 - @UTAH/SJSU 18 - SOU 10 - SAC 5 - UW 8 - PAC 15 - Nicole Kornet (@STAN-4Q) 7 - Michaela Onyenwere (UCF-4Q) 2019-20 UCLA WOMEN’S BASKETBALL MEDIA INFORMATION 2019-20 UCLA NUMERICAL ROSTER UCLA Sports Information J.D. Morgan Center, Suite 128 No. Name Pos. Ht. Yr. Hometown (High School/Previous School) 325 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095 0 Chantel Horvat G 6-1 Jr. Geelong, Australia (Geelong College) Women’s Basketball SID Ryan Andersen 1 Kayla Owens G 6-1 R-So. Houston, Texas (Langham Creek HS) Cell Phone (916) 337-7914 E-mail [email protected] 3 Kiara Jefferson G 5-9 So. Sacramento, Calif. (West Campus HS) Website www.uclabruins.com 4 Lindsey Corsaro G 6-1 R-So. Indianapolis, Ind. (Roncalli HS) 5 Brynn Masikewich F 6-2 Fr. Calgary, Alberta (Lincoln Prep) WEEKLY AVAILABILITY The best time for interviews with The Michael Price Family UCLA 10 Ally Rosenblum F 6-4 Sr. Newport Coast, Calif. (Mater Dei HS) Women’s Head Basketball Coach, Cori Close, or members of the Bruins’ 13 Jaden Owens G 5-6 Fr. Plano, Texas (Plano West HS) squad, is after practices. This year, the women’s basketball team will be 21 Michaela Onyenwere F 6-0 Jr. Aurora, Colo. (Grandview HS) practicing in Pauley Pavilion at varying times during the morning with times normally ranging from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. PT. For access to 20 Charisma Osborne G 5-9 Fr. Moreno Valley, Calif. (Windward School) weekly practices or to schedule an extended interview with a member 23 Natalie Chou G 6-1 R-Jr. Plano, Texas (Plano West HS/Baylor) of the UCLA women’s basketball team, please contact WBB SID Ryan 24 Japreece Dean G 5-6 Sr.