The Bruins face off in opposition to Oklahoma State (24-9) at 7 p.m.; the sport can be broadcast to ESPN.
UCLA appears to return to the Sweet 16 for the fourth-consecutive season with a win on Monday.
GAME INFORMATION
Venue: Pauley Pavilion introduced by Wescom Financial
Location: Los Angeles, Calif.
Tip-off Time: 7 p.m. PT
TV: ESPN
TV Talent: Eric Frede, Christy Thomaskutty
Radio: UCLA Digital Radio; Westwood One; SiriusXM 81 and SiriusXM App
Radio Talent: Dave Marcus (UCLA)
TICKET INFORMATION
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MATCHUP HISTORY: vs. Oklahoma State Cowgirls
• The Bruins are 2-1 within the all-time sequence in opposition to Oklahoma State courting again to Jan. 8, 1985.
• UCLA is 2-0 in opposition to the Cowgirls inside Pauley Pavilion; the Bruins and Cowgirls met in December 2017 and 2018 in a home-and-home.
• Monday would be the first postseason assembly between the packages.
LAST TIME OUT: W, 96-43, vs. No. 16-seed California Baptist (March 21)
• UCLA claimed its largest postseason win in program historical past with the 53-point victory over CBU on Saturday evening.
• The Bruins outscored California Baptist 52-9 within the second half. UCLA dominated the boards, successful the rebound battle 62-21. The Bruins had 21 offensive rebounds that led to 30 second probability factors.
• Three Bruins recorded double-doubles within the win: Lauren Betts (22 PTS, 10 REB), Sienna Betts (10 PTS, 12 REB) and Angela Dugalić (10 PTS, 11 REB). The result’s believed to be the primary time siblings have recorded a double-double in the identical recreation.
• UCLA had 5 scorers in double figures; Gabriela Jaquez (16 PTS) and Kiki Rice (18 PTS) joined the double-double achievers.
HISTORY MADE IN INDY
• UCLA turned the tenth staff in convention historical past to repeat as Big Ten event champions after capturing the 2025 and 2026 titles in consecutive seasons.
• The championship victory marks the third convention event title in program historical past, and the primary back-to-back championship for UCLA WBB. The Bruins now personal trophies from the 2006 Pac-10 event, the 2025 and 2026 Big Ten tourneys.
• Senior Kiki Rice was named Most Outstanding Player for the 2026 Allstate Big Ten Women’s Basketball Tournament; she averaged 16.7 factors, 5.3 assists and three.7 rebounds in UCLA’s 3-0 weekend in Indianapolis. Senior Lauren Betts joined her on the all-tournament staff.
• UCLA earned its second-consecutive Big Ten event title with a 51-point win over Iowa within the championship recreation. The outcome marked the biggest margin of victory over an AP top-10 opponent by any staff in NCAA historical past (since 1981-82).
• UCLA completed 18-0 in convention play, claiming the fourth unblemished common season in Big Ten History (2026 UCLA, 2015 Maryland, 1999 Purdue, 1985 Ohio State).
MADE FOR MARCH: UCLA IN THE POSTSEASON
• Saturday started the Bruins’ twenty first look within the NCAA event.
• UCLA’s solely nationwide championship got here in 1978 when ladies’s basketball was housed by the AIAW.
• The Bruins reached their first NCAA Final Four in 2025 after claiming the Spokane 1 Regional championship trophy.
• UCLA enters the NCAA postseason for the ninth time within the final 11 seasons (excluding the canceled 2020 postseason).
• The Bruins received the 2015 WNIT and made it to the event’s semifinal spherical in 2022 for UCLA’s solely absences from the NCAA event since 2014.
• UCLA has hosted the primary and second rounds every of the final 4 seasons, one in every of six DI colleges to be a top-four seed in each marketing campaign.
WHAT’S BRUIN
• UCLA have 12 ranked wins this season, seven of which have are available in B1G play; the Bruins additionally had back-to-back top-12 wins (No. 11 Ohio State, No. 9 Iowa) within the Big Ten event.
• The Bruins have a +21.4 margin of victory in ranked wins and league-leading +28.9 margin general (4th in NCAA, 1st in B1G).
• The Big Ten boasts seven packages within the AP Top 25’s penultimate ballot: No. 2 UCLA, No. 7 Iowa, No. 9 Michigan, No. 12 Ohio State, No. 17 Maryland, No. 18 Minnesota, No. 20 Michigan. Oregon and Illinois obtained votes.
• The 2025-26 Bruins have received a program-record setting 26-straight video games since faltering in opposition to No. 4 Texas on Nov. 26.
• UCLA received 23-straight video games in 2024-25 – 22 had been by a double-digit margin – setting the streak for each information in program historical past. UCLA’s previous-best win streak got here within the 1977-78 championship marketing campaign (21 video games).
• Head Coach Cori Close has 353-career wins on the helm; she was the primary Bruin ladies’s head coach to attain 300 wins final 12 months.
• The Bruins reached 30 wins for the second-consecutive season; 2026 marks the quickest they’ve gotten to 30 victories.
• UCLA has 4 gamers averaging double figures: L. Betts (16.5), Ok. Rice (15.4), G. Jaquez (13.7) and G. Kneepkens (13.2). Angela Dugalić (9.0) and Charlisse Leger-Walker (8.9) are simply outdoors of the double-digit mark.
• The Bruin beginning 5 totals 67.7 factors per recreation, accounting for 79.2% of scoring for UCLA. Six UCLA gamers have scored 20+ factors in a recreation this season; the Bruins have had a number of 20+ level scorers in 4 video games to date.
• The Bruins lead the Big Ten in help/turnover ratio (1.77 A/TO), assists (738 TOTAL, 22.4 APG), FG% (.513, 2nd NCAA), defensive FG% (.358 OPP FG%). UCLA can also be first within the convention (2nd NCAA) in rebounding margin (+15.7 RPG), first in rebounds (42.9 RPG, sixth NCAA) and first within the B1G in scoring margin (+28.9, 4th NCAA). UCLA is second within the convention in 3P% (.374, seventh NCAA).
• UCLA completed the pre-tournament season second within the NET rankings with a nation-best 19 Quad 1 wins (19-1).
• Four Bruins had been named to the Mid-Season Top 10 lists for the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame and WBCA Starting 5 awards: Kiki Rice (Lieberman), Gianna Kneepkens (Meyers Drysdale), Gabriela Jaquez (Miller) and Lauren Betts (Leslie).
• Lauren Betts was named to the Wooden Award Late Midseason Top 20 on Feb. 10, however level guard Kiki Rice (who was named to the highest 25) was omitted on the up to date watch listing. They each made the Naismith Trophy POTY Late Season Team on Feb. 17.
• For the primary time in program historical past (information going again to 1999-2000), UCLA had seven Bruins in double figures in opposition to Indiana on Feb. 15: Ok. Rice (17), L. Betts (16), G. Kneepkens (12), C. Leger-Walker (12), G. Jaquez (11), S. Betts (10), L. Bilić (10).
• The Bruins boast 7 McDonald’s All Americans on the roster: Lauren Betts, Sienna Betts, Angela Dugalić, Timea Gardiner, Gabriela Jaquez, Amanda Muse, and Kiki Rice. Jaquez and Rice shared co-MVP honors within the all-star recreation.
