After two painful losses to Southern California in the regular season, UCLA appeared to be headed for another in the Big Ten ...

Lauren Betts scored 13 of her 17 points in the second half Sunday and No. 4 UCLA allowed only four baskets over the final 12 ...

For UCLA coach Cori Close, Thursday’s top ... earned the right to have all basketball eyes on Southern California for women's basketball,” Close said. “Credit to both these programs and ...

The annual ranking of the region’s pro/college teams considers competitive success, historic importance in the market, interest level and fan passion – and while No. 1 shouldn’t be a surprise, the ...

Teams from 2,000 miles away played for the Big Ten championship. One could give the Big Ten its first national title since ...

The names at the top of our annual State of Southern California Sports rankings don ... Two dynamic programs 12 miles apart, and two coaches in Cori Close and Lindsay Gottlieb who are rivals ...

In January 2022, Cori Close and UCLA visited Lindsay Gottlieb and Southern California at the Galen Center in a matchup between middling crosstown rivals. The attendance in that game was 1,982 ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Top-ranked UCLA was seeing red at practice on Wednesday, with its scout team donning the colors of crosstown rival Southern California ... UCLA coach Cori Close said.