One of coach Cori Close’s mantras has prevailed throughout the season: toughness. “You cannot give toughness,” Close said Wednesday. “You cannot hope it into place. You have to earn toughness.

“There was a great piece at halftime of the Tennessee-South Carolina game on Lauren, making a play for her to be the No. 1 player in the country this year,” Bruins coach Cori Close said this ...

But no, the bar hasn’t been raised. It was always high. This is what coach Cori Close said during a halftime interview over Pauley Pavilion’s loudspeakers, with her team holding a 33-28 lead ...

But no, the bar hasn’t been raised. It was always high. This is what coach Cori Close said during a halftime interview over Pauley Pavilion’s loudspeakers, with her team holding a 33-28 lead: “We’re ...

UCLA's Cori Close, Kiki Rice, and Elina Aarinsalo talked about returning to Pauley Pavilion and finding out ways to win when Lauren Betts is taken out of the equation... The UCLA women's ...

Koala and Curlew, two endangered female North Atlantic right whales have gone off course, perplexing researchers.

It’s that coach Cori Close also has seven other rotation players, led by Kiki Rice and Gabriela Jaquez, that are putting up at least 6.2 points per game. Previous ranking: 2 JuJu Watkins has ...