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    Thursday, May 02, 2024

    Top 25 women's basketball roundup

    No. 9 UCLA 62, Colorado 52

    Michaela Onyenwere scored 16 points and Japreece Dean added 12 to lead No. 9 UCLA to a win over Colorado on Friday night at Pauley Pavilion.

    The Bruins (25-4, 13-4 Pac-12) played well defensively, holding Colorado to 23 points in the first half. The teams combined for 36 turnovers.

    Colorado made more mistakes, unforced and otherwise, with 19 turnovers. The Bruins were sloppy as well with 17 turnovers but had control of the game throughout in bouncing back from a 74-68 loss at Washington five days earlier.

    UCLA had a 31-23 halftime lead and got off to a good start in the third quarter with a 9-0 run — on baskets from four players — to build a 42-27 lead with 5:32 left. Dean also took a big charge early in that spurt and Charisma Osborne hit a 3-pointer on the ensuing possession. Dean made a layup for a 15-point lead, the largest of the game.

    Mya Hollingshead had 22 points for Colorado (16-12, 5-12), which has lost 11 consecutive games in the series.

    Colorado was coming off its most impressive win of the season against No. 11 Arizona, but the Buffaloes were cold from the start.

    UCLA built a 20-8 lead during the first quarter. The Buffaloes had six turnovers in the period and shot just 27.3% from the field. Colorado had 12 turnovers in the first half.

    Colorado stayed in the game in the first half with nine second-chance points, while UCLA had none. But the Bruins led by as many as 14 at 24-10 on a pair of free throws by Natalie Chou.

    The Buffaloes had won two of four overall after losing seven of their previous eight games.

    The Bruins are already guaranteed a top-four seed and a bye in the conference tournament, so the goal is to sweep the homestand and be playing well.

    No. 3 Oregon 88, Washington State 57

    Oregon celebrated its latest Pac-12 title with a rout of Washington State as Ruthy Hebard and Satou Sabally dominated inside and Sabrina Ionescu dished out 12 assists.

    Hebard had 28 points and 14 rebounds for her 15th double-double of the season. Sabally finished with 22 points and seven rebounds without playing in the fourth quarter as Oregon (27-2, 16-1 Pac-12) eliminated any doubt early against the Cougars (11-18, 4-13).

    Ionescu added 12 points for Oregon. Jovana Subasic led WSU with 17 points and Borislava Hristova had 14 in the sixth consecutive loss for the Cougars.

    The Ducks clinched their third consecutive outright Pac-12 regular-season crown before the game when Arizona defeated Stanford.

    The only scare for Oregon came when Hebard and Sabally, fighting for an offensive rebound, went down in a tangle of legs late in the third quarter, hushing the crowd. Sabally walked off the court gingerly and didn’t return.

    No. 17 Oregon State 75, Washington 61

    Aleah Goodman came off the bench to score 22 points, Taylor Jones had 21 points and eight rebounds for Oregon State.

    Goodman hit 6 of 11 shots from 3-point range, and Jones was 8 of 12 from the floor for the Beavers (21-8, 9-8 Pac-12). Mikayla Pivic had 10 points and 11 rebounds.

    Amber Melgoza scored 34 points for Washington (13-15, 5-12). She moved into 10th place on the Huskies' career scoring list with 1,676 points.

    No. 23 Princeton 81, Brown 39

    Bella Alarie had 18 points, six rebounds and four blocks and Princeton beat Brown for its 19th straight victory.

    Princeton (23-1, 11-0) clinched a share of the Ivy League title with the victory and won outright after Pennsylvania (7-4) later lost to Yale.

    Julia Cunningham added 14 points, and Carlie Littlefield 13 for Princeton.

    Brown dropped to 8-16 overall and 2-9 in the Ivy League.

    No. 24 Arizona State 24, California 54

    Jamie Ruden scored 18 points and Eboni Walker had 11 points and 13 rebounds as Arizona State beat California.

    Ruden made 4 of 5 from 3-point range and the Sun Devils (20-9, 10-7 Pac-12) went 10 of 17 from the arc. The Golden Bears (10-18, 2-15) made 2 of 8 from 3-point range.

    Ja'Tavia Tapley added 11 points for Arizona State, which won four of its last five games.

    Cailyn Crocker had 11 points and Evelien Lutje Schipholt added 10 points and seven rebounds for California.

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