If you did not realize what a big deal former UCLA basketball players Jordin Canda and Monique Billings were to this team, then the Bruins’ 3-4 start to the 2018-19 season should clear things up.
Head coach Cori Close and her Bruins had an inauspicious start to the new season when they were upended by Loyola Marymount in the season opener, sans their two superstars who are now in the WNBA. It was the Bruins’ first game without Canada and Billings and it showed just how much the former Bruins were missed.
UCLA narrowly lost that opener, 69-63.