{"id":174868,"date":"2026-02-12T10:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T10:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/174868\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T10:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T10:13:09","slug":"no-2-ucla-women-rout-michigan-state-for-18th-straight-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/174868\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 2 UCLA women rout Michigan State for 18th straight win"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

EAST LANSING, Mich.\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Lauren Betts had 22 points, seven rebounds and five assists and No. 2 UCLA<\/a> pushed its winning streak to 18 games by thumping No. 13 Michigan State 86-63 on Wednesday<\/a> night.<\/p>\n

Kiki Rice finished with 18 points and seven rebounds for the Bruins (24-1, 14-0 Big Ten).<\/a> Gabriela Jaquez added 13 points, all in the first half, and Gianna Kneepkens chipped in 12.<\/p>\n

UCLA now has nine wins over ranked opponents, six in conference play.<\/p>\n

Rashunda Jones scored 15 points and Emma Shumate had 12 for the Spartans (20-5, 9-5), who have dropped three of their last four games. Grace VanSlooten and Kennedy Blair, the team\u2019s top scorers entering the game, were held to a combined 18 points on six-for-25 shooting.<\/p>\n

UCLA, which led by 31 points, outscored Michigan State 56-22 in the paint and had a 48-28 rebounding advantage.<\/p>\n

Their matchup last season in Los Angeles wasn\u2019t decided until late in the game, when the Bruins pulled out a 75-69 victory. Betts missed that game with a foot injury but the Spartans couldn\u2019t avoid her imposing 6-foot-7 presence this time.<\/p>\n

Coming off a hotly contested 69-66 victory over No. 8 Michigan on Sunday, the Bruins were in total control from the start.<\/p>\n

UCLA scored on its six first possessions while powering to a 44-20 halftime lead, capped off by Jaquez\u2019s three-pointer. Betts had 13 points by the break, while the Spartans were unable to get anything going in halfcourt sets or transition.<\/p>\n

Michigan State hasn\u2019t defeated a top-two team at home since 2005.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EAST LANSING, Mich.\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Lauren Betts had 22 points, seven rebounds and five assists and No. 2 UCLA pushed its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[8932,18555,42838,423,48,52,51,48226,47,50,49,63,32008,1417,83410,7556,1001,30246,427,25859,8934],"class_list":["post-174868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-bruins","tag-conference-play","tag-gabriela-jaquez","tag-game","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-lauren-betts","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-michigan-state","tag-point","tag-rashunda-jones","tag-rebound","tag-spartans","tag-streak","tag-team","tag-ucla-woman","tag-victory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174868","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=174868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}