{"id":103976,"date":"2025-12-21T17:38:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T17:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/103976\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T17:38:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T17:38:07","slug":"ucla-womens-basketball-starters-all-produced-versus-long-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/103976\/","title":{"rendered":"UCLA women’s basketball starters all produced versus Long Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dec. 21, 2025, 7:30 a.m. PT<\/p>\n

As we headed into the season, one of things that stood out about the UCLA Bruins<\/a> roster was the amount of reliable seniors<\/a>. Those seniors were on full display on Saturday, with the Bruins<\/a> mowing down Long State Beach 106-44<\/a>.<\/p>\n

UCLA doesn’t need Charlisse Leger-Walker to score a ton<\/p>\n

The entire UCLA starting lineup is comprised of seniors, four of those five starters had double-digit points on Saturday. The lone exception was Charlisse Leger-Walker, who had just two points but still made an impact in the game, dishing out 10 assists and collecting two steals. Leger-Walker isn\u2019t asked to score like she was at Washington State but she\u2019s been able to play winning basketball and keep things on track for UCLA.<\/p>\n

Gabriela Jaquez’s shooting jump has been huge for the Bruins<\/p>\n

Gabriela Jaquez continued her terrific senior season, hitting five threes and scoring 17 points in Saturday\u2019s win. As a junior, Jaquez shot a career-high 34.8% from three, that number has jumped to 54.2% so far this season. Shooting is exactly what UCLA needed this season and Jaquez has stepped up in a big way for the Bruins.<\/p>\n

Need a news break? Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a>Kiki Rice the conductor was in full effect on Saturday<\/p>\n

Saturday was the prototypical Kiki Rice game. She put up 15 points on 5-8 shooting, adding nine rebounds and seven assists. Rice would tack on a block and four steals, continuing her excellent all-around season. Rice isn\u2019t the flashiest Bruin, but when Rice plays well, her team follows suit.<\/p>\n

Good luck finishing around Lauren Betts in the paint<\/p>\n

Lauren Betts did something for the first time as a college player on Saturday, take a three point attempt. The jumper didn\u2019t fall, but Betts did hit a long two-point jumper but beyond her jump shooting, Betts put up 17 points with two blocks and three steals in her 24 minutes.<\/p>\n

Gianna Kneepkens the rebound hunter<\/p>\n

Gianna Kneepkens didn\u2019t have her best game, shooting 4-10 from the field and 2-7 from three but she hit the glass, bringing down 10 rebounds to notch a double-double while notching two steals. Even when Kneepkens doesn\u2019t have a great shooting game, her spacing will always benefit the Bruins offense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dec. 21, 2025, 7:30 a.m. PT As we headed into the season, one of things that stood out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[243,131,133,132,55347,55348,509,5727,27434,507,1350,1349,13084,377,13082,55349,55351,7193,246],"class_list":["post-103976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-accessfree","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-sstssportscollegeuclawomens-basketball","tag-sstsnwomens-basketball","tag-tagbasketball","tag-tagbig-10-hub","tag-tagbig-ten-conference-womens-basketball","tag-tagcalifornia-gold-rush","tag-tagcollege-sports","tag-tagoverall-positive","tag-tagsmg-listicle","tag-tagsports-news","tag-tagucla-bruins","tag-tagucla-bruins-womens-basketball","tag-tagwomens-college-basketball","tag-tagwomens-sports","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}