{"id":104322,"date":"2025-12-22T00:26:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T00:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/104322\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T00:26:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T00:26:09","slug":"no-4-ucla-closes-nonconference-play-with-a-dominant-win-over-long-beach-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/104322\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 4 UCLA closes nonconference play with a dominant win over Long Beach State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/ucla\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UCLA<\/a> women\u2019s basketball coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/ucla\/story\/2025-01-05\/cori-close-connection-to-john-wooden-ucla\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cori Close<\/a> could not have imagined a better way for her team to wrap up nonconference play than Saturday afternoon\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/womens-college-basketball\/game\/_\/gameId\/401819549\/long-beach-st-ucla\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">106-44 trouncing<\/a> of Long Beach State at Pauley Pavilion.<\/p>\n<p>Coming off Tuesday\u2019s 115-28 triumph over Cal Poly San Luis Obispo \u2014 UCLA\u2019s largest margin of victory during the NCAA era \u2014 the Bruins picked up where they left off, leading wire-to-wire for their fifth consecutive win since suffering their lone loss to Texas on Nov. 26.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re growing &#8230; we had a couple of lapses today and we\u2019re not there yet, but we\u2019re heading in the right direction,\u201d Close said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UCLA women\u2019s basketball coach Cori Close could not have imagined a better way for her team to wrap&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-104322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104322","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=104322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}