UCLA Women's Basketball Continues on Road at BYU DATE: December 11, 2007 • SID CONTACTS: Steve Rourke/Liza David PHONE: 310-206-6831 • E-MAIL: [email protected] or [email protected] 2007-08 SCHEDULE/RESULTS Website: uclabruins.com senior center Lauren Riley-Varley tops the Cougar 2007-08 Overall Record: 4-4 GAMEDAY CENTRAL rebounders with an 8.4 per game average. Pac-10 Record: 0-0 DATE: Sat., Dec. 15 LOCATION: Provo, UT Last season, BYU posted a 23-10 record and lost in NOVEMBER: GAME SITE: Marriott Center (22,700) the fi rst round of the NCAA Tournament. The Cougars are coached by former NBA player (Boston, Detroit, 1 Team Concept (Exhib.) W 94-82 GAME TIME: 4 pm Mountain Time/ 3 pm Pacifi c Portland, Utah) Jeff Judkins. 7 Love & Basketball (Exhib.) W 84-67 TV: The Mtn. 14 at Cal State Northridge W 81-69 TV TALENT: Mike Evans, Andrea Lloyd UCLA leads the all-time series with BYU, 8-3, but lost 18 Rice W 79-71 the last matchup, played on Nov. 22, 2005, by a 71-67 AUDIO: uclabruins.com 20 Cal Poly SLO W 107-83 score in Pauley Pavilion. 25 #3 Maryland (TV - FSN) L 75-79 AUDIO TALENT: Dave Marcus (play-by-play) 28 at Pepperdine L 79-91 Jamila Veasley (color) FRESH FACES DECEMBER: BRUINS AT BYU SATURDAY The Bruin freshmen have been as good as advertised, 1-2 at Univ. of Nevada Nugget Classic playing pivotal roles on the team. Five of the six fresh- UCLA (4-4) will travel to Utah on Saturday Dec. 15 men have played in all eight games, while the sixth has vs. Idaho State L 64-76 for the fi fth game of a fi ve-game road swing and play at vs. Southern W 79-52 played in fi ve. Doreena Campbell joins senior Lindsey BrighamYoung University (4-5). The game will take place Pluimer as the only Bruins to start all eight games. 8 at San Diego L 57-63 at the Marriott Center at 3:00 pm Pacifi c time. 15 at BYU (TV - The Mtn.) 4:00 pm Mountain Regina Rogers has started seven games, Darxia Morris 19 Tennessee 7:00 pm The Bruins, who are taking fi nals this week, are in the six and Nina Earl two. Campbell leads the Bruins in 21 UC Riverside 2:00 pm midst of a challenging stretch of games in which nine three-pointers (tied-10), assists (26) and minutes played 28 at Arizona State 6:30 pm Mountain of 11 opponents played in the post-season a year ago (31.1 average). Morris is tied with Campbell for the 30 at Arizona 2:00 pm Mountain - Idaho State (NCAA Tournament), San Diego (WNIT), team lead in steals with 16. Rogers is the team's top BYU (NCAA Trny.), Tennessee (NCAA champions), UC offensive rebounder (23), and Candice Brown leads the JANUARY: Riverside (NCAA Trny.), Arizona State (NCAA Trny.), team with a .667 (8-12) fi eld goal percentage. 4 Stanford 7:00 pm Stanford (NCAA Trny.), California (NCAA Trny.) and 6 California (TV - FSN) 12:30 pm Washington (NCAA Trny.). PLUIMER POWERS BRUINS 10 at Washington 7:00 pm Four Bruin players are averaging in double-fi gures, led UCLA's lone senior, forward Lindsey Pluimer, continues 12 at Washington State 2:00 pm by senior Lindsey Pluimer (14.3 points and a team-high to lead the Bruins both on and off the court. Pluimer, a 19 at USC 12:00 pm 7.8 rebounds per game). Three of UCLA's vaunted two-time Academic All-District selection and a 2006-07 24 Oregon 7:00 pm freshman class also average in double fi gures - Nina Earl, All-Pac-10 honorable mention selection, has started 26 Oregon State 2:00 pm 10.4 ppg; Doreena Campbell, 10.0 ppg; Regina Rogers, every game since her freshman season for a total of 31 at California 7:00 pm 10.0 ppg. UCLA's team scoring average of 77.6 points 100 career starts. In her career, she has averaged 12.3 FEBRUARY: per game ranks 12th in the nation. points and 6.0 rebounds and has improved her scor- 2 at Stanford 2:00 pm ing average every season. Pluimer is one of just seven 8 Washington State 7:00 pm ABOUT BYU Bruins to record at least 1,000 points, 500 rebounds 10 Washington (TV - ESPN2) 1:30 pm Brigham Young enters the game on Saturday with a 4-5 and 60 blocked shots for a career, and she is one of 16 17 USC 2:00 pm mark after winning a 72-52 decision over Utah Valley Bruins to have scored at least 1,000 points and pulled 21 at Oregon State 7:00 pm State on Dec. 8. The Cougars are led by senior guard down at least 500 rebounds for her career. 23 at Oregon 2:00 pm Mallary Gillespie-Carling, who is the lone BYU player Pluimer is set to move up considerably in the UCLA 28 Arizona State 7:00 pm scoring in double fi gures with a 13.6 mark. Six-three record books. She currently ranks 14th in career scoring MARCH: 2007-08 UCLA NUMERICAL ROSTER 1 Arizona 11:00 am 7 Pac-10 Tournament - San Jose, CA TBD No. Name Pos Ht Yr Hometown (High School) 8 Pac-10 Tournament - San Jose, CA TBD 1 Nina Earl F 6-1 Fr. Pomona, CA (Diamond Ranch HS) 9 Pac-10 Tournament - San Jose, CA TBD 2 Tierra Henderson G 5-10 Jr. Pasadena, CA (Muir HS) 10 Pac-10 Tournament - San Jose, CA TBD 3 Darxia Morris G 5-8 Fr. Pasadena, CA (Muir HS) 4 Christina Nzekwe F 6-4 Fr. Seattle, WA (Chief Sealth HS) NCAA Tournament: 5 Alexis Olivier G 5-8 So. Seal Beach, CA (Los Alamitos HS) Mar. 22-25 - NCAA 1st/2nd Rounds 10 Allison Taka G 5-8 So. Culver City, CA (Culver City HS) Mar. 29-Apr. 1 - NCAA Regionals 13 Erica Tukiainen G 6-0 So. Los Angeles, CA (Windward HS) Apr. 6-8 - NCAA Final Four 14 Lindsey Pluimer F 6-4 Sr. San Clemente, CA (San Clemente HS) 21 Doreena Campbell G 5-10 Fr. Alexandria, VA (Edison HS) Home games are played in Pauley Pavilion and noted in 23 Chinyere Ibekwe C 6-4 Jr. Los Angeles, CA (Carson HS) boldface 24 Candice Brown F 6-3 Fr. Riverside, CA (Bishop Amat HS) All times listed are local to site & subject to change 31 Moniquee Alexander C 6-6 So. Harbor City, CA (Edison Academic Center) 34 Regina Rogers C 6-3 Fr. Seattle, WA (Chief Sealth HS) Head Coach: Kathy Olivier, 15th season (UNLV '82) Assistant Coaches: Pam Walker, Trisha Stafford-Odom, Maylana M. Douglas pg. 1 of 5 with 1,232 points and also has 599 career rebounds, 17 Morris. Rogers made her fi rst career start in the Rice away from moving into the Top 15. Five more blocked game. The same group started at Pepperdine. National Rankings shots will move her from eighth to seventh on the career Another freshman received her fi rst starting assign- Associated Press (Dec. 10) USA Today/ESPN (Dec. 11) list. Pluimer currently has 69. ment in game three against Cal Poly, as Nina Earl joined 1. Tennessee (48) 1. Tennessee (29) 2. Connecticut (2) 2. Connecticut (1) two other classmates (Rogers and Campbell) in the CAMPBELL NATIONALLY RANKED 3. North Carolina 3. North Carolina starting lineup. 4. Maryland 4. Stanford Freshman guard Doreena Campbell has played more 5. Maryland (1) The Bruins have utilized four different starting lineups in 5. Stanford like a veteran than a freshman, averaging 10.0 points, 4.8 6. Rutgers 6. Rutgers the eight games this year and have used the same lineup rebounds, 3.3 assists, 2.0 steals and just 1.4 turnovers 7. Georgia 7. Georgia in back-to-back games just twice. 8. LSU 8. LSU per game in eight starts. She ranks 18th in the nation in 9. Oklahoma 9. Oklahoma assist/turnover ratio (2.36) and is the top-ranking fresh- TOREROS BEST BRUINS 10. Baylor 10. Baylor man in the nation in that category. Campbell leads the 11. California 11. Texas A&M team in three-point fi eld goal percentage (10-17, .588), A UCLA second-half rally came up short and the Toreros 12. Texas A&M 12. California 13. West Virginia assists (26), steals (16, tied) and minutes played (31.1 came away with a 63-57 win at San Diego. UCLA trailed 13. West Virginia 14. Auburn 14. Auburn 34-26 at the half and by as many as 19 points in the 15. Duke average). Campbell recorded seven steals in the season 15. Duke second half. A 21-5 Bruin run sliced the USD advantage 16. DePaul opener at Cal State Northridge. 16. DePaul 17. Ohio State to one, at 52-51, with 4:36 to play, but it was as close as 17. Notre Dame 17. Notre Dame UCLA would get. Nina Earl was the lone Bruin in double 18. Arizona St. REBOUNDING ROGERS 19. Arizona St. 19. Ohio St. fi gures with 12 points. 20. Vanderbilt Freshman center Regina Rogers totaled 16 rebounds 20. Texas 21. Michigan State on Nov. 28 at Pepperdine, including 10 on the offensive 21. Michigan State UCLA SPLITS AT NUGGET CLASSIC 22. Geo. Washington 22. Oklahoma State end. Her 16 rebounds were the most by a Bruin player 23.