From orange carpet fits to WNBA draft dreams: UCLA seniors own New York
Betts has been projected to go as high as No. 1 in most mock drafts. If all five Bruins are drafted in the first round, it will be the first time.
NEW YORK — The UCLA women's basketball team has a had a whirlwind of a week since winning the national championship on April 5 at Mortgage Matchup Center in Phoenix. They had a celebration with fans at Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles, danced with cheerleaders at an LA Clippers game, attended an LA Lakers games and made an appearance on the Jimmy Kimmel Show. "Doing Jimmy Kimmel, being on late night TV, that's my goal of life," UCLA forward Angela Dugalic "...
I never knew how I was gonna get there, but it's always been a dream. " Now five of the Bruins' six seniors are spending time together in New York in the runup to the WNBA draft on Monday (7 p. m.
ET, ESPN). Dugalic, Lauren Betts, Gabriela Jaquez, Gianna Kneepkens and Kiki Rice are five of the 15 players that have been invited to attend the draft at The Shed at Hudson Yards in Manhattan. The group was a part of media event on Saturday at The Luxury Collection Hotel, also in Manhattan.
"This is a dream come true for all of us, just really excited," Betts said. "To experience all of this with them, I feel like I'm a lot less nervous than I would be, because ... I have all my teammates here.