[81alum]

According to the UCLA student paper, Charisma Osborne is not close to being fully healthy yet.  She sat out (and UCLA lost) to Oregon State, then she went 2-16 against USC in a come-from-behind squeaker.  So UCLA may be 8th in the nation, but the last two games they have not been at their best.

https://dailybruin.com/2023/01/13/ucla-w...t-stanford

Freshman guard Londynn Jones has been blossoming while Osborne has been injured--perhaps more than the other freshman Kiki Rice as of late.  Jones shoots the three quite well to go along with a good overall game.  Without her, UCLA would have lost to USC.

Close has been playing 5 freshmen at least 15 minutes each--by far the heaviest reliance on freshmen (which was, after all, the #1 class) in the country.  I shudder to think what they will all be like as seniors.  But maybe they will all transfer somewhere.

[81alum]

According to the UCLA student paper, Charisma Osborne is not close to being fully healthy yet.  She sat out (and UCLA lost) to Oregon State, then she went 2-16 against USC in a come-from-behind squeaker.  So UCLA may be 8th in the nation, but the last two games they have not been at their best.

https://dailybruin.com/2023/01/13/ucla-w...t-stanford

Freshman guard Londynn Jones has been blossoming while Osborne has been injured--perhaps more than the other freshman Kiki Rice as of late.  Jones shoots the three quite well to go along with a good overall game.  Without her, UCLA would have lost to USC.

Close has been playing 5 freshmen at least 15 minutes each--by far the heaviest reliance on freshmen (which was, after all, the #1 class) in the country.  I shudder to think what they will all be like as seniors.  But maybe they will all transfer somewhere.