UCLA women's basketball cemented its legacy led by a group of seniors that stuck together
Cori Close and her Bruins etched their names in history with the programs first National Championship.
PHOENIX — Lauren Betts has said she manifested all of this. On the eve of Sunday’s national championship game, she hoped she’d dream about cutting down the nets. It’s been on her mind all season, and she wasn’t shy about sharing that.
Betts wanted UCLA to win a national championship this year. She believed the senior-laden roster had more than enough talent to get the job done. These Bruins tasted the Final Four a season ago, but they also realized how much more it would take to make it to the final Sunday of the season.
“We had everybody you could possibly want on a team,” Betts said. “(We were) so skilled at every single position that I think the maturity to come in and sacrifice yourself and your ego and be able to put that aside for moments like these, it makes it so worth it. “At the end of the day, no one's going to really care about how much you averaged this season when you have a freaking ring around your finger.
No one cares. ” The rings might take a few months to actually get delivered to Betts and her teammates, but the championship she manifested did arrive on Sunday. UCLA beat South Carolina, 79-51, to win the program’s first NCAA women’s basketball championship.
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