{"id":916681,"date":"2026-10-05T06:38:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T06:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/916681\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T06:38:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T06:38:16","slug":"bilic-out-for-2026-27-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/916681\/","title":{"rendered":"Bili\u0107 Out for 2026-27 Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2013 Sophomore <a href=\"https:\/\/uclabruins.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/player\/lena-bilic\" title=\"Lena Bili\u0107\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lena Bili\u0107<\/a> has been ruled out for the 2026-27 campaign, UCLA Women\u2019s Basketball announced on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The Croatian wing suffered a tear to her anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in practice and will miss the entire 2026-27 season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are devastated for Lena,\u201d said The Michael Price Family UCLA Women\u2019s Head Basketball Coach <a href=\"https:\/\/uclabruins.com\/staff\/cori-close\" title=\"Cori Close\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cori Close<\/a>. \u201cShe is such an important part of what we do here, and I know she\u2019ll continue to be impactful for us through her recovery. We\u2019ll be with Lena every step of the way, and she\u2019s in great hands with the best medical staff in the country, so I know she will come out on the other side stronger and better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More information will be released as it becomes available.<\/p>\n<p>Bili\u0107 in 2025-26<br \/>She appeared in 33 games during her freshman season, averaging 12.1 minutes on the floor. Bili\u0107 had a career night against Southern U. on Nov. 23, scoring a season-high 14 points (4-9 3FG) and grabbing a career-best six rebounds against the Jaguars. She scored in double digits three times this season, including a 13-point outing in the Big Ten conference opener on Dec. 7. Bili\u0107 scored her first postseason basket against California Baptist in the first round of the 2026 NCAA March Madness tournament and finished her freshman campaign with 13 steals, nine blocks and 21 assists. She shot a perfect 3-for-3 from the free throw line on the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES \u2013 Sophomore Lena Bili\u0107 has been ruled out for the 2026-27 campaign, UCLA Women\u2019s Basketball announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":916682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-916681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/916682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}