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UCLA Women's Basketball: Depleted Bruins Lose Big at Stanford

The Bruins were outsized and outnumbered on Sunday.

Maren Angus-Coombs

UCLA Women's Basketball: Depleted Bruins Lose Big at Stanford
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Your No. 7 UCLA Bruins fell to the No. 3 Stanford Cardinal 80-60 on Sunday afternoon at Maples Pavilion.

A depleted Bruins team arrived with just nine available players after Lina Sontag left to join the German National Team and its quest for an Olympic bid in Hungary. Lauren Betts and Izzy Anstey did not make the trip due to undisclosed medical reasons. 

The depleted bench left the Bruins with mostly guards and inexperienced post players for a top-10 game. The inexperience and mismatch proved to be too much. Stanford outscored UCLA 52-12 in the paint and out-rebounded the Bruins 44-28.

Guards Charisma Osborne and Londynn Jones led UCLA in scoring with 13 points each. Osborne scored all 13 in the first half. Gabriela Jaquez and Kiki Rice each had nine points.

The Bruins shot an uncharacteristic 30 percent (20-for-66) from the floor and spent all but 17 seconds playing catch-up. 

Stanford's Cameron Brink led all players with 19 points and 20 rebounds.

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Osborne had the first 10 points for the Bruins in the first quarter including this mid-range jumper.

Osborne made her third three-pointer of the game on this play in the second quarter.

UCLA trailed at the half 45-27.

Jacquez had a nice highlight in the third quarter.

The Bruins never quit despite trailing for almost the entire game. In the fourth quarter, UCLA held Stanford without a field goal for just over three minutes and forced four turnovers in a little over four minutes.

It wasn't enough.

The Bruins will miss Dugalic for their next two games as she will represent Serbia in its Olympic qualifying tournament. 

UCLA will hopefully get Betts and Anstey back for games against Arizona and Arizona State next weekend. They are both listed as day-to-day.

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Maren Angus-Coombs
MAREN ANGUS-COOMBS

Maren Angus-Coombs was born in Los Angeles and raised in Nashville, Tenn. She is a graduate of Middle Tennessee State University and has been a sports writer since 2008. Despite being raised in the South, her sports obsession has always been in Los Angeles. She is currently a staff writer for the LA Sports Report Network.