LOS ANGELES – No. 1-seed UCLA (31-2) hosts its final home game of the 2024-25 campaign, welcoming No. 8-seed Richmond on Sunday, March 23. The Bruins and Spiders will tip off at 7 p.m. PT in Pauley Pavilion presented by Wescom Financial for the Second Round of the 2025 NCAA Women’s March Madness Tournament. The game will be broadcast to ESPN.
GAME INFORMATION
Venue: Pauley Pavilion presented by Wescom Financial
Location: Los Angeles, Calif.
Tip-off Time: 7 p.m. PT
TV: ESPN
TV Talent: Dave O’Brien, Christy Winters-Scott, Holly Rowe
Radio: UCLA Digital Radio
Radio Talent: Dave Marcus
TICKET INFORMATION
Ticket packages for the 2024-25 NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament hosted at Pauley Pavilion presented by Wescom Financial are still available.
Fans can call (310) 825-2946 or visit uclabruins.com/tickets for more information. For additional information on women’s basketball, please visit uclabruins.com, email [email protected], or call (310) UCLA-WIN (825-2946).
MATCHUP HISTORY: vs. Richmond Spiders
• Sunday’s matchup will be the first meeting in program history between the Bruins and the Spiders.
LAST TIME OUT: W, 84-46 vs. No. 16-Seed Southern U (Friday, March 21)
• Friday’s 38-point win marked UCLA women’s basketball’s largest margin of victory in postseason history (prev: 32, vs. Texas A&M, 3/20/2017).
• Six Bruins reached double figures in a game for the first time this season; Lauren Betts led all scorers with 14 PTS (6-9 FG). Two Bruins also finished with nine points for a balanced and efficient offensive attack . Janiah Barker notched her sixth double-double of the season in the win, she racked up 10 REB to go with her 10 PTS (6-8 FT).
WHAT’S BRUIN
• Five Bruins earned B1G postseason honors, as announced by the league office on Tuesday, March 4. Lauren Betts was named the unanimous Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year by the coaches and made the cut for All-Big Ten First Team and All-Defensive Team. She was joined by Kiki Rice on the All-Big Ten First Team; Rice was also UCLA’s B1G Sportsmanship Honoree. Junior Janiah Barker was named the league’s Sixth Player of the Year by coaches and media. Gabriela Jaquez (media) and Londynn Jones (coaches) were tabbed as All-Big Ten Honorable Mention. • Betts was named First Team All-America by the Associated Press, marking the first time a Bruin has collected that honor in program history. She was also named USBWA First Team All-America, joining Natalie Williams (1993, 1994) as a first teamer from Westwood. Rice was also named AP All-America Honorable Mention on Wednesday, March 19. • UCLA claims three of the top 25 rebounding spots in the new conference: Betts (3rd – 9.6 RPG), Barker (24th – 6.0), Dugalić (25th – 5.9 RPG). The team ranks 5th in the NCAA in rebounds per game (43.3 RPG) and 1st in rebounding margin (+13.1) while leading the conference in all rebounding statistical categories. • The Bruins have four players averaging 5+ RPG: Betts (287 REB), Barker (194 REB), Dugalić (183 REB) and Jaquez (5.3 RPG, 168 REB); and seven players averaging 7+ PPG: Betts (19.4), Rice (12.7), Jaquez (9.9), Jones (8.9), Dugalić (7.8), Barker (7.7) and Gardiner (7.6). • The Bruins are among the top five in the Big Ten in assist/turnover ratio (2nd – 1.35), blocks (2nd – 5.4 BPG), scoring offense (4th – 78.8 PPG) and scoring margin (2nd – +21.5). • The Bruins have led wire-to-wire in 16 of the 31 wins and have claimed 10 ranked victories this season. All but four wins have been by 10+ points this year (vs. Louisville, Michigan State, at Iowa, vs. USC). • UCLA won 23-straight wins – 22 were by a double-digit margin – setting the longest streak for both records in program history. UCLA’s previous-best win streak came in the 1977-78 campaign (21 games).
• The Bruins boast 9 McDonald’s All Americans on the roster: Janiah Barker, Lauren Betts, Kendall Dudley, Angela Dugalić, Timea Gardiner, Gabriela Jaquez, Kiki Rice, Zania Socka-Nguemen. Jaquez and Rice shared co-MVP honors, and Londynn Jones – while not a McDAAG participant – placed second in the high school three-point contest at the 2022 games.
