PHOENIX — UCLA women's basketball's senior core had one more crack at an elusive NCAA national championship.
One last dance, if you will.
After the Bruins were knocked out of the 2025 Final Four in blowout fashion, Lauren Betts, Kiki Rice, Gabriela Jaquez, Charlisse Leger-Walker and Angela Dugalic opted to return to UCLA to run it back one final time. UCLA didn’t let the moment pass and dismantled South Carolina 79-51 to win the program’s first NCAA national championship in Phoenix on Sunday, April 5.
"Today was just a fantastic display of our resilience, intensity that we came out. Just our will to win," said senior guard Kiki Rice, who finished with 10 points in the win. "We had a feeling this was our time, this was our year
"There's no better way that we could hope to end our career."
