UCLA loves to win by the skin of its teeth. That’s how the Bruins advanced to face fourth-seeded Arizona women’s basketball in the Pac-12 quarterfinals on Thursday. Cori Close’s fifth-seeded team needed overtime to get by 12th-seeded Arizona State, which won one Pac-12 game all season.
“Wasn’t that nice of us to make a really exciting game for the media, to start off the tournament this way?” the UCLA head coach said. “We’re all about the selflessness, taking one for the team.”
It’s been an issue for UCLA all season in both wins and losses, against good teams and less-than-good teams.