Lauren Betts watched UCLA's 2025 Final Four loss 10 times. Here’s what she learned
UCLA senior Lauren Betts watched her team's 2025 Final Four 10 loss. Now, she's extra motivated headed into the Bruins' national semifinal against Texas.
PHOENIX — Lauren Betts has UCLA women's basketball's 2025 Final Four loss to UConn seared into her brain. The 6-foot-7 center watched the Bruins' 34-point blowout loss to the eventual national champion Huskies at least 10 times, revealing her anger and confusion was the motivating factor behind her continually pressing rewind. Betts has since retired the footage and doesn't remember the last time she's watched it, but the loss has served as extra motivation as the Bruins returns to the Final Four in Phoenix in Friday.
"I knew I just wanted to get back here again. This is not the end goal. We want to keep playing two more games," Betts said on Thursday.
"At the end of the day, our senior season is on the line. We want this so bad. " Betts said the biggest lesson she learned from the 2025 Final Four is "coming out with a certain level of aggression.
" The Bruins trailed UConn 20 points by halftime in the program's first Final Four appearance last year and the lead only swelled. It's a troubling trend that's followed UCLA into the 2026 NCAA Tournament. UCLA has had several shaky starts, including the Bruins' Elite 8 win over No.