{"id":112129,"date":"2025-12-29T08:54:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T08:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/112129\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T08:54:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T08:54:11","slug":"ucla-womens-basketball-defeats-ohio-state-for-sixth-straight-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/112129\/","title":{"rendered":"UCLA women&#8217;s basketball defeats Ohio State for sixth straight win"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>COLUMBUS, Ohio\u00a0\u2014\u00a0<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/ucla\/story\/2025-12-16\/sienna-lauren-betts-reunite-as-ucla-women-win-laugher-over-cal-poly\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lauren Betts<\/a> had 18 points and 16 rebounds as No. 4 <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/ucla\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UCLA<\/a> extended its winning streak to six games with an <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/womens-college-basketball\/game\/_\/gameId\/401825231\/ucla-ohio-state\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">82-75 win<\/a> over No. 19 Ohio State on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/ucla\/story\/2024-03-22\/kiki-rice-ucla-basketball-ncaa-championship-dreams\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kiki Rice<\/a> added 16 points and <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/ucla\/story\/2025-11-23\/ucla-womens-basketball-vs-southern-recap\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Angela Dugalic<\/a> scored 15 as UCLA (12-1, 2-0 Big Ten) beat the Buckeyes for the fourth straight time, dating to December 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Jaloni Cambridge led all scorers with 28 points, and Elsa Lemmila added 13 points and seven rebounds for Ohio State (11-2, 1-1), which had its nine-game winning streak halted in its conference home opener.<\/p>\n<p>The Bruins built a 76\u201360 lead midway through the fourth quarter before Ohio State closed the gap behind strong defense and key late baskets from Cambridge, T\u2019yana Todd and Chance Gray. The Buckeyes closed within six points with about two minutes remaining, but got no closer.<\/p>\n<p>UCLA outrebounded Ohio State 47\u201333, including a 19\u201310 edge on the offensive end that led to a 35\u201310 advantage in second-chance points. Betts anchored the Bruins in the paint as UCLA outscored the Buckeyes 50\u201332 inside.<\/p>\n<p>Ohio State struggled from three-point range in the first half, missing its first 11 attempts before Lemmila connected with 3:43 left in the second quarter. The Buckeyes found some rhythm in the third quarter, hitting six three-pointers, and finished seven of 30 (23%) from beyond the arc.<\/p>\n<p>Up next for UCLA: at Penn State on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>           <img id=\"yt-img-xv7cSYpUXAo\" class=\"absolute\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766998451_772_hqdefault.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/>                  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLUMBUS, Ohio\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Lauren Betts had 18 points and 16 rebounds as No. 4 UCLA extended its winning streak to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[8932,60119,60121,60120,60123,42841,48,52,51,48226,47,50,49,18158,24288,1417,7556,30246,60122,60124,25859],"class_list":{"0":"post-112129","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-bruins","9":"tag-buckeyes","10":"tag-elsa-lemmila","11":"tag-jaloni-cambridge","12":"tag-key-late-basket","13":"tag-kiki-rice","14":"tag-la","15":"tag-la-headlines","16":"tag-la-news","17":"tag-lauren-betts","18":"tag-los-angeles","19":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","20":"tag-los-angeles-news","21":"tag-no","22":"tag-ohio-state","23":"tag-point","24":"tag-rebound","25":"tag-streak","26":"tag-strong-defense","27":"tag-tyana-todd","28":"tag-ucla-woman"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112129","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=112129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}