No. 1 UCLA women hold off No. 22 Michigan State without Lauren Betts
LOS ANGELES — USC handed the UCLA women’s basketball team its first loss of the season on Thursday, but the Bruins were able to regroup three days later and beat No. 22 Michigan State 75-69.
Timea Gardiner drained a corner three with 43 seconds left in the game to give UCLA a 71-69 advantage. Janiah Barker jumped up for an offensive rebound and dished the ball to Londynn Jones, who handed it off to Gardiner for the shot.
UCLA (24-1 overall, 12-1 Big Ten) closed out the game on a 7-0 run to seal the win.
The Bruins were without 6-foot-7 center Lauren Betts, who was not dressed for the game and wearing an air cast on her right foot. The junior is day-to-day with a right foot injury.
Betts is the second-leading scorer in the Big Ten behind USC’s Juju Watkins and contributes an average of 19.5 points per game while pulling down 9.9 rebounds per game.
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