A day after UCLA was anointed the best women’s college basketball team in the country in the season’s opening month, Cori Close showed up at the practice facility to see another early riser.
Her players.
Nine Bruins were already on the court when Close arrived at 6:40 a.m. Tuesday.
“That told me what I needed to know,” Close said Wednesday, “about where their vision really is and where their aspirations lie.”
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