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The UCLA Bruins took on Dawn Staley and the South Carolina Gamecocks in this year’s women’s NCAA Tournament national championship game on Sunday. Coach Cori Close helped her team emerge victorious with a dominating 79-51 score at the Mortgage Matchup Center in Phoenix. After the game, NBA legend Magic Johnson took to social media to […]
Gabriela Jaquez entered history books after playing a crucial role in the UCLA Bruins’ 79-51 win over Dawn Staley’s South Carolina Gamecocks in the national championship final on Sunday. UCLA senior had been second fiddle to Lauren Betts and Kiki Rice all season. She is one of the most underrated players in the country. According […]
Following their loss from this year's national championship game to coach Cori Close's UCLA Bruins, South Carolina Gamecocks guards Ta'Niya Latson and Raven Johnson share an emotional moment together as they wrap up their college basketball careers.
Here are some of the reactions to Cori Close and the UCLA Bruins winning the NCAA Championship against the South Carolina Gamecocks.
Lauren Betts and the UCLA Bruins defeated the South Carolina Gamecocks 79-51 in the national championship game on Sunday to win their first-ever title. Although the star of the NCAA final was surely Gabriela Jaquez, Betts completed a pretty impressive season. She averaged 17.2 points, 8.7 rebounds, 3.2 assists, and 2.1 blocks per game. Betts […]
The South Carolina Gamecocks, coached by Dawn Staley, are now on the wrong side of history following their 2026 national championship game loss to the UCLA Bruins, as it is related to their 2025 NCAA title matchup defeat to the UConn Huskies.
In the post-game press conference following her team's loss in this year's national championship game, South Carolina Gamecocks coach Dawn Staley dismissed any rumor that UConn Huskies coach Geno Auriemma has reached out to her following their viral tussle.
As she was leading her team to the 2026 national championship through her inspired play against the South Carolina Gamecocks, UCLA Bruins guard Gabriela Jaquez just received a heap of praise from Indiana Fever superstar Caitlin Clark.
During the first quarter of Sunday's clash against the South Carolina Gamecocks, Betts could be seen hunched over on the bench coughing into a towel.
It is the program's first title in the NCAA era and the first time since 1978 that UCLA has ruled women's basketball.
Dawn Staley showed major respect for Cori Close following the South Carolina Gamecocks’ 79-51 loss to the UCLA Bruins in the women’s national championship game on Sunday afternoon. Staley has been the Gamecocks’ head coach since the 2008-09 season, while Close has led the Bruins’ direction since the 2011-12 campaign. Both coaches have enjoyed remarkable […] The post South Carolina WBB’s Dawn Staley praises ‘good human being’ Cori Close after championship blowout appeared first on ClutchPoints.
Dawn Staley and Cori Close shared a handshake and a hug before the start of the NCAA championship final on Sunday. The two coaches exchanged a warm embrace, after which Dawn Staley shrugged her shoulders and made a hand gesture that seemingly mocked the incident with Geno Auriemma two days earlier. NCAA journalist Meghan L. […]
Dawn Staley was gracious in defeat after South Carolina got blown out by UCLA, 79-51, in the national title game of the NCAA Women’s Tournament at Mortgage Matchup Center on Sunday. Staley admitted that UCLA outworked them throughout the contest, while also lamenting South Carolina’s lack of execution. She tipped his hat to the Bruins, […] The post South Carolina’s Dawn Staley admits Chloe Kitts was ‘considered dead’ to them after ACL injury appeared first on ClutchPoints.
UConn Huskies head coach Geno Auriemma was booed by fans in Phoenix after he was featured on a video montage during the NCAA final game.
The UCLA Bruins are having an easy time dominating the South Carolina Gamecocks in the national championship game.
Here's everything we know about Lauren Betts' health scare during the UCLA Bruins vs the South Carolina Gamecocks national title game.
Caitlin Clark reacted to Cori Close's long-awaited title after the UCLA Bruins defeated the South Carolina Gamecocks in the national championship game.
South Carolina fell to UCLA in the women's March Madness championship game, but the Gamecocks' win over UConn in the Final Four and Dawn Staley's masterful navigation of the Geno Auriemma controversy deserves credit.
The UCLA Bruins did a remarkable thing by defeating Dawn Staley’s South Carolina Gamecocks in dominant fashion to win the women’s college basketball national title.
With Dawn Staley and the South Carolina women’s basketball team losing in a rout to the UCLA Bruins in the national championship game on Sunday, 79-51, the conversation people are still wondering about with her has nothing to do with the contest. After Staley and UConn head coach Geno Auriemma got into a heated exchange […] The post Dawn Staley shuts down Geno Auriemma question in classy fashion appeared first on ClutchPoints.
As the South Carolina women’s basketball team was dominated by UCLA in the national championship game on Sunday, 79-51, head coach Dawn Staley would get real on the disappointing result. While the South Carolina women’s basketball team had been surrounded by the heated exchange between Staley and UConn head coach Geno Auriemma, the main focus […] The post Dawn Staley doesn’t hold back about South Carolina women’s basketball title game rout: ‘We got smacked’ appeared first on ClutchPoints.
Raven Johnson doesn’t have an X account to check, and she’d like other women’s athletes to consider doing the same. “I don’t really be on social media,” the South Carolina senior said Saturday in Phoenix, the day before she played UCLA for the national championship. “I don’t be on Twitter, because that is a toxic…
UCLA senior Gabriela Jaquez shined in the team's title win over South Carolina.
As the UCLA women’s basketball team won its first national title after dominating the South Carolina Gamecocks on Sunday, 79-51, the program saw a star-studded performance from Gabriela Jaquez. With the UCLA women’s basketball team led by Lauren Betts, Jaquez stood out during the rout over South Carolina and gave a great response after the […] The post Gabriela Jaquez’s savage mic drop after UCLA women’s basketball’s dominant title game appeared first on ClutchPoints.
