[Maple Leaf]

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.

Well tonight when UCLA plays Stanford there is the opportunity watch the current #1 freshman class against the #1 freshman class from 4 years ago also known as the Funky Four.

[Maple Leaf]

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.

Well tonight when UCLA plays Stanford there is the opportunity watch the current #1 freshman class against the #1 freshman class from 4 years ago also known as the Funky Four.