After losing twice in front of the USC Trojans in the normal season, Ucla Bruins cut a two -day break after the normal season to one. The Cori Close manager, one day, gave one day to Wallow, then return to watching the tape and the Big Ten championship.
The losses from the University of California in Los Angeles fell from being the highest -ranked team in the country and ended a possible perfect season. The University of California entered Los Angeles in the post-season with 28-2, but the program was not hoping for discomfort for Trojan horses. Bruins wanted another opportunity.
“If you are a competitor, yes, bring him,” Claus said. “If we do not do it, there is a bigger mistake. If anyone in our dressing room will answer differently, don’t return.”
Bates was one of these players who wanted another chance. Although there were two doubles in the competition of Crossown during the normal season, the second loss against USC reduced deeply deep given that it was at home and the only property of the normal title Big Ten.
In the Big Teen Tournament Final on Sunday in Indianapolis, Indiana, USC seemed to have continued to get the Bruins number with 45-35 progress. Jojo Watkins goalkeeper, South California University goalkeeper, who won the Big Ten Player of the Year Award, over 18 points and five rebounds in the first half while Betts scored four points in a shooting of 5, with two rebound balls.
Fortunately for the University of California, Los Angeles, there are two halves in the basketball game.
In the third quarter, USC expanded in the period of up to 13 points in the first minute. Soon after, Betts went up to get a ball throw, hit the USC defense, in an attempt to stop the big, the thumb of the 6 -feet of 7, which requires a quick trip to the side line to register. When Bates returned, the center was a different player.
Betts got nine points per quarter at 3 of 3 shooting, as well as stealing. Beginners scored the largest number of points such as Trojan horses in the third quarter and the Bruins team entered the fourth quarter to two points.
The deficit was not long for a long time for Bruins because Betts hit the first basket of the last quarter to connect the game. The ball’s throwing looked like a broken play, with a USC defense that covers their surroundings well. Betts had the ball and stood near the top of the key, waiting for someone to open with the approaching of the shot approaching. He saw this center and it was not panic, and instead it became a goalkeeper and run to the basket to strike the ball.
This shot continued to operate 11 points that extended from the end of the third quarter to the beginning of the fourth.
Defensive, make Betts and Bruins any kind of returning to the Trojan horses with 13 lost rounds to start a quarter. It was not until 1:13 in the game, as USC achieved a shot in the game after scoring four previous points in this period of the free shooting line.
Part of this defense was Betts, which had three blocks in a quarter, including a bloc on Watskins that look like a center that holds the ball from the star’s hand from behind when it tried to shot near the basket.
There were also things that Betts did not jump from the screen, as Betts put itself in sites to slow the USC crime with sudden movements.
“I think it was just making myself a little uncomfortable. It is clear that playing on the ocean is something that does not like many posts 6’7” to do, but I think this is what the team needs from me at that moment, “Pets said.
Betts crowned in the second half, where she got 13 points, 3 blocs and stealing 2, which gave the University of California in Los Angeles to win 72-67 and only in the second conference championship in the history of the program. In the fourth quarter, Betts also reached a sign of 1000 points for her career in NCAA, but that was not in the mind of the center, it was soon possible to celebrate with her teammates.
“I don’t think you understand, comrades, I am very proud of this team.” “We got that game. We won it. We worked with our punishment. We stayed together. We learned. We could surrender after we lost in front of them in the normal season and did not do that. It was not enough. We won’t deny this game.”
In the second half, with the decrease in the progress of the Trojan horses and Broenos was getting forward, Bents moved from a athlete who is usually defeated to a force of emotion. Betts blocks were stronger and their drives to the basket were faster.
This prominent performance was crowned with the championship championship, the second individual award won by beginners this season after winning Big Ten, a defensive player of the year. However, Bets confirmed how individual awards were not important.
“It is a great thing, but what it means more to me is the confidence that this team won in this game to March Madness,” said Bings.
The most important Betts is how the team met and puts the team in the NCAA championship, which starts on Sunday with the display of the selection of 68 teams completely.
Now, the University of California may hear in Los Angeles its name as the No. 1 Seed in the NCAA championship. The University of California in Los Angeles was at the top of the top 16 NCAA Tournamanet committees on February 27. Since then, Bruins lost to Trojan horses on the last day of the season, but with UCLa’s victory on Sunday, AP loss No. 1 in March Madness.
Betts and Bruins showed that they have a strong case to win the number 1, despite two losses against USC in the normal season. The Coach Close team puts the work and the benefits talking to itself.
“I think the work that took place in the dark only showed today. As I said, these are amazing teams, but I think we were the best team today, and there was a lot of the work that he went to.”
