{"id":244817,"date":"2026-03-31T09:35:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/244817\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T09:35:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:35:16","slug":"five-concerns-ucla-must-fix-before-facing-texas-in-the-final-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/244817\/","title":{"rendered":"Five concerns UCLA must fix before facing Texas in the Final Four"},"content":{"rendered":"

p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix”> \"UCLA <\/p>\n

UCLA forward Angela Dugalic looks to pass around Minnesota guard Mara Braun during a Sweet 16 game on Friday in Sacramento.<\/p>\n

(Eric Thayer\/Los Angeles Times)<\/p>\n

UCLA has now survived two games when it didn\u2019t shoot well from long range. The Bruins can get away with that when Lauren Betts<\/a> and Angela Dugalic<\/a> are playing well in the paint, but the deeper into the tournament they go, the more the offense will need to have multiple dimensions.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe try to put ourselves in situations every day in practice where we\u2019re facing adversity, where we\u2019re being pushed to our edge, and that\u2019s where you\u2019re forced to grow and feel forced to make decisions,\u201d UCLA guard Charlisse Leger-Walker<\/a> said. \u201cIt shows you who you really are as competitors, and I think we\u2019ve learned how [to adapt.]\u201d<\/p>\n

One of the biggest strengths of UCLA\u2019s starting lineup is how, on paper, it can score in different ways. But the Bruins have shot 29% from three-point range during four NCAA tournament games.<\/p>\n

Overall, though, they\u2019ve shot 51.2% from the field. The majority of that scoring has come in the paint, where UCLA has outscored each team it has faced in the tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix”> UCLA forward Angela Dugalic looks to pass around Minnesota guard Mara Braun during a Sweet 16…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[4472,8932,109609,11155,423,477,48,52,51,48226,109611,47,50,49,1524,18035,61581,278,109610,564,12967],"class_list":["post-244817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-ball","tag-bruins","tag-concern-ucla","tag-defense","tag-game","tag-half","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-lauren-betts","tag-longhorns","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-nation","tag-offense","tag-paint","tag-season","tag-seed-duke","tag-texas","tag-tournament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244817","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=244817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}