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UCLA routs Ohio State to arrange Huge Ten title showdown with USC

By Editorial Board Published March 9, 2025 5 Min Read
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UCLA routs Ohio State to arrange Huge Ten title showdown with USC

INDIANAPOLIS — One saying that’s repeated this time of 12 months in faculty basketball is that it’s exhausting to beat the identical staff 3 times in a season.

UCLA can present the saying has advantage.

Or USC can present it’s as straightforward as A-B-C, 1-2-3.

Every staff can have an opportunity to spin its most popular narrative when the crosstown rivalry will get renewed midway throughout the nation Sunday at Gainbridge Fieldhouse within the Huge Ten girls’s basketball event championship sport.

The second-seeded Bruins ensured they’d get one other rematch by dispatching third-seeded Ohio State with ease in a semifinal Saturday, constructing an early double-digit lead on the best way to a runaway 75-46 victory.

A day after rolling up 10 factors within the first quarter in opposition to Nebraska, UCLA’s Gabriela Jaquez made all three pictures within the first quarter whereas scoring seven factors within the early going in opposition to the Buckeyes.

UCLA ahead Angela Dugalic blocks a layup by Ohio State ahead Cotie McMahon through the first half Saturday. Dugalic had two blocks within the Bruins’ win.

(Michael Conroy / Related Press)

The Bruins wanted solely seven minutes to construct a double-digit lead that put the components of the gang carrying blue in a celebratory temper. After followers in a single part of the world yelled “U-C!” others throughout the best way accomplished the mantra by shouting again “L-A!”

There wasn’t a lot else to do for the stability of a sport that the Bruins (29-2) led by as many as 39 factors.

Guard Londynn Jones made six three-pointers on the best way to a team-leading 22 factors for UCLA, which shot 50.8% from the sector and had 4 gamers in double-figure scoring. Jaquez and middle Lauren Betts completed with 12 factors every and ahead Angela Dugalic added 10.

Guard Jaloni Cambridge scored 10 factors and was the one participant to achieve double figures for the Buckeyes (25-6), who shot 33.3% on the best way to a season low for factors.

The Trojans had been on the Bruins’ thoughts for a lot of the week, gamers acknowledging their need for a 3rd assembly lengthy earlier than they arrived right here to open the event.

“I’d love to get another matchup against them,” UCLA level guard Kiki Rice instructed reporters on campus earlier than leaving Los Angeles.

Mentioned Betts, with fun: “The third time’s the charm.”

USC coach Lindsay Gottlieb was extra measured in her remarks after the Trojans held off Michigan within the early semifinal Saturday. Requested if she had a desire between dealing with UCLA or Ohio State, Gottlieb stated, with fun, “That’s going to be a no. Whoever wins, we’ll be ready.”

It was straightforward to exude confidence given the best way her staff had performed within the rivalry this season.

After pulling out a 70-61 victory over the Bruins on the Galen Middle in February, the Trojans had been much more dominant final week, asserting themselves early and holding up late throughout an 80-67 triumph.

UCLA coach Cori Shut was so indignant afterward that she crumpled up the stat sheet and pounded a desk together with her fist throughout postgame remarks. Two days later, Shut acknowledged being in a significantly better temper given how her gamers responded to the defeat that price the Bruins a Huge Ten regular-season championship.

Rice and Jaquez referred to as a players-only movie session that allowed everybody to say no matter they needed that was essential to get the staff rolling once more.

“It’s March and you don’t really have time for feelings,” Betts stated earlier this week. “It’s like, you know, we have to win games.”

The largest up to now will come Sunday, in opposition to a staff the Bruins need to beat like no person else.

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