{"id":633853,"date":"2026-03-02T06:05:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T06:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/633853\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T06:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T06:05:12","slug":"ucla-womens-basketball-secures-undefeated-big-ten-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/633853\/","title":{"rendered":"UCLA Women’s Basketball Secures Undefeated Big Ten Record"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charlisse Leger-Walker<\/a> matched her season high with 20 points and No. 2 UCLA<\/a> routed Southern California 73-50 on Sunday to complete the first undefeated Big Ten<\/a> women’s regular season in 11 years.<\/p>\n

The Bruins (28-1, 18-0) equaled Maryland’s<\/a> feat from 2014-15, when the Terrapins also went 18-0. UCLA won the league title outright when it beat Wisconsin last weekend. The Bruins haven’t lost since Nov. 26, when they were beaten by then-No. 4 Texas, 76-65.<\/p>\n

Earlier Sunday, the Bruins were projected as one of the four No. 1 seeds for the women’s NCAA Tournament in a second early reveal by the selection committee. Undefeated UConn was the No. 1 overall seed, edging UCLA and South Carolina.<\/p>\n

Gabriela Jaquez<\/a> had 14 points and eight rebounds, and Gianna Kneepkens<\/a> also scored 14 points. Lauren Betts<\/a> finished with five points on 2-of-10 shooting, 15 rebounds and five assists for the Bruins.<\/p>\n

Freshman star Jazzy Davidson<\/a> scored 12 points and Kennedy Smith<\/a> added 11 for the Trojans (17-12, 9-9), who have lost three in a row and are 7-9 in their last 16. They got swept by the Bruins, losing 80-46 on Jan. 3.<\/p>\n

USC<\/a> star JuJu Watkins<\/a> watched in street clothes, having spent the season rehabbing from a torn ACL she sustained in March Madness last year. A year ago Sunday, Watkins scored 30 points in a win against UCLA that clinched the Big Ten regular-season title for the Trojans in their first season in the league.<\/p>\n

This time, USC made a run in the third, closing within nine on nine straight points including two 3-pointers by Kara Dunn<\/a>. But the Bruins used runs of 10-0 and 7-0 to move ahead 57-36 going into the fourth.<\/p>\n

UCLA had another 10-0 run in the fourth, when its lead ballooned to 71-42. The Bruins dominated the boards 47-22, including a 22-5 edge on the offensive glass. They forced USC into 15 turnovers, which led to 20 points for the Bruins.<\/p>\n

Reporting by The Associated Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charlisse Leger-Walker matched her season high with 20 points and No. 2 UCLA routed Southern California 73-50 on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7,7641,82930,217,79016,68655,11895,33349,17514,26773,26774,11890,231,772,1544,4262,849,6135],"class_list":{"0":"post-633853","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-big-ten","10":"tag-charlisse-leger-walker","11":"tag-college-basketball","12":"tag-event_recap","13":"tag-gabriela-jaquez","14":"tag-gianna-kneepkens","15":"tag-jazzy-davidson","16":"tag-juju-watkins","17":"tag-kara-dunn","18":"tag-kennedy-smith","19":"tag-lauren-betts","20":"tag-ncaa","21":"tag-ncaa-basketball","22":"tag-ncaab","23":"tag-ucla-bruins","24":"tag-usc-trojans","25":"tag-womens-college-basketball"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}