Once the dust settled in the desert Thursday night, there was an eerie sense of deja vu. Read more...

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Doreena Campbell scored 16 points in UCLA’s win over Arizona on Thursday.

A month ago, Stanford humbled the UCLA women's basketball team in a 26-point drubbing. Read more...

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Jasmine Dixon is averaging 12.2 points per game for the No. 11 UCLA women’s basketball team. The Bruins take on Arizona today to start off their last Pac-10 road trip of the season. UCLA is currently second in the Pac-10 and can lock up a top-two finish if it wins or if Arizona State loses today.

It was 2008 and the Tennessee women's basketball team was one win away from claiming another national championship. Read more...

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Hailing from rural Millerton, N.Y., assistant coach Tony Perotti has infused a hard-nosed flair to the women’s basketball team, working mostly with the Bruins’ post players.

The full-court press is now known as a Nikki Caldwell trademark.
At the center of the press patrols an athletic forward, flying from sideline to sideline in the backcourt, arms outstretched, legs punishing the glossed wooden panels below her. Read more...

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Redshirt sophomore forward Atonye Nyingifa is fully healthy this season after having sat out all of 2009-2010 with a knee injury. A starter on the team, Nyingifa has played both ends of the floor effectively, averaging 8.5 points, 5.2 rebounds and 1.4 steals per game so far this season.

You've seen them walking around campus, but you probably haven't noticed them. They practice in Pauley Pavilion as often as five days a week, but they don't sport the famed blue UCLA backpacks. They are part of the women's basketball program, but they're men. Who are these mysterious warriors of the court, those who practice but never play and are said to put the "men" in "women's" basketball? Unknown to most except the close followers of UCLA athletics, the women's basketball practice squad, known as the scout team, is a group of approximately a dozen undergraduate male students who practice with the women's basketball team and simulate its opponents. That's right, guys playing with girls. Because of a lack of women on campus able to play at or near a Division I level, nearly all collegiate women's basketball teams utilize male scout teams. Read more...

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First-year psychobiology student Michael Wong is a member of the scout team that regularly practices with the women’s
basketball players at Pauley Pavilion. The scout team serves to simulate game situations during practice.

UCLA wasn't short of scoring opportunities Sunday afternoon against the Stanford Cardinal, but when presented with them, the Bruins' shots fell flatly off the rim. Read more...

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Senior guard Darxia Morris attempts to dribble past Stanford sophomore forward Joslyn Tinkle. UCLA lost to Stanford 67-53 Sunday at Pauley Pavilion.

At the end of Wednesday's practice, members of the UCLA women's basketball team made slow steady steps toward the middle of the floor, where they were joined by coach Nikki Caldwell and the coaching staff. Read more...

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The bench links arms during the closing minutes of No. 9 UCLA’s 74-67 victory over USC. The Bruins will face off against California Friday and Stanford Sunday.