Lauren Betts scores career-high 35 as UCLA powers past Oklahoma State and into Sweet 16
Lauren Betts dominates for No. 1 UCLA, finishing with 35 points in an 87-68 win over No. 8 Oklahoma State in the second round of the NCAA tournament.
UCLA center Lauren Betts (51) celebrates with Lena Bilic, left, and forward Sienna Betts after making a three-pointer during an 87-68 win over Oklahoma State in the second round of the NCAA tournament at Pauley Pavilion on Monday night. (Ronaldo Bolanos / Los Angeles Times) On a day when No. 1 seeds dominated, UCLA wasn’t the exception.
The top-seeded Bruins led wire-to-wire, beating No. 8-seed Oklahoma State 87-68 in the second round of the NCAA tournament on Monday night at Pauley Pavilion to advance to the Sweet 16 . They will face No.
4-seed Minnesota on Friday in Sacramento. While UCLA started much better than it did in its opening-round game, there were still elements to nitpick. The Bruins were outscored 21-18 in the third quarter, Oklahoma State won the offensive rebounding battle and outside of Lauren Betts — who scored a career-high 35 points while shooting 15 of 19 — the offense fell flat at times in the second half.
Read more: UCLA stars now have a better chance of sticking with WNBA rosters under new CBA But with arguably the best post player in the country, the Bruins overcame all of that. UCLA (33-1) jumped out to an 11-2 lead while the Cowgirls (24-10) went the final 4:26 without scoring and shot 0 for 8 from the field during that span. The Bruins turned that into a 25-point lead and were up 46-26 at halftime.