{"id":256271,"date":"2026-04-07T20:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T20:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/256271\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T20:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T20:30:07","slug":"lakers-to-celebrate-ucla-womens-national-title-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/256271\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers to celebrate UCLA women\u2019s national title \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lakers will celebrate UCLA&#8217;s first NCAA title in women&#8217;s basketball at Tuesday night&#8217;s game against Oklahoma City. <\/p>\n<p>The team will be <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Lakers\/status\/2041588206626591196\" rel=\"nofollow\">recognized on the court<\/a> at Crypto.com Arena at the end of the first quarter. <\/p>\n<p>The event comes a day ahead the school&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/tag\/march-madness\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NCAA title<\/a> celebration planned for 6 p.m. Wednesday at Pauley Pavilion. The event is free and open to the public, but a ticket is required for admission.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/ucla.evenue.net\/events\/WBBNCAA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> for details.<\/p>\n<p>Doors will open 60 minutes prior to the event.<\/p>\n<p>UCLA won its first NCAA championship in women&#8217;s basketball Sunday with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/news\/sports\/ncaab\/ucla-south-carolina-womens-basketball-score\/3871529\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">79-51 win<\/a> over South Carolina in a matchup of No. 1 seeds. Gabriela Jaquez delivered a complete performance on both ends of the court, score a team-high 21 points as one of five Bruins in double-figures.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tonight we celebrate the champions of Women&#8217;s College Basketball:<\/p>\n<p>We will recognize <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UCLAWBB?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@UCLAWBB<\/a> and honor their NCAA championship on court at the end of the first quarter. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/evYhdelMX9\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/evYhdelMX9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Los Angeles Lakers (@Lakers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lakers\/status\/2041588206626591196?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 7, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The senior, who added 10 rebounds and five assists, is one of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/news\/sports\/ucla-basketball-seniors\/3871963\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">six top players<\/a> the Bruins will lose to graduation. Several are likely high picks in the April 13 WNBA Draft.<\/p>\n<p>UCLA&#8217;s one loss on the season came in November against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/news\/sports\/ncaab\/who-did-ucla-womens-basketball-lose-to-2025-2026\/3871548\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas<\/a>, the team the Bruins defeated in the national semifinal game. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Lakers will celebrate UCLA&#8217;s first NCAA title in women&#8217;s basketball at Tuesday night&#8217;s game against Oklahoma City.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49,23857,127,1092],"class_list":{"0":"post-256271","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-la","9":"tag-la-headlines","10":"tag-la-news","11":"tag-los-angeles","12":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","13":"tag-los-angeles-news","14":"tag-ncaa-basketball","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-ucla"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256271","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=256271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}